Trivandum had proved to be a fine place to explore and we did it in style using the tuk tuks, here there was no pointless haggling and meters were turned on straight away. The sun came out and all was well. we'd seen swarmi's and guru's down at the temple, street madness, the lot. After being turned away from the temple we looked at "things to do in trivandrum"...it said a must visit was Pizza corner....a meeting place of East and West where surprises await...and...

So, here we are yet again in what some folks back home have heard called Paradise. Well if you like your Paradise filled with polio victims crawling like spiders, strange men in the shadows offering you opium and an enforced police curfew, then you've come to the right place. Yes to some extent the beach is quite nice if you can ignore the piles of litter on the right of the bay towards the small lovely lighthouse. It's got big waves coming in all the time and it...