You wont believe this but we still wondered about taking the train to Chennai and so made enquiries, the local travel agent told us that due to the holidays the trains were full but they could possibly get us on tomorrow's train. This sounded familiar to us and so we bailed on the idea, funnily enough. We then tried to book a flight to Chennai....it took ages and ages and eventually when we paid for it, we had a message saying that due to the holidays the flight ...

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...

On our second day in paradise we decided to see what Indian bureaucracy was like and so we haggled with the auto rickshaw man for a trip into Trivandrum. This is more like India should be....everyone honking their horns and dicing with death on the potholed roads. We like Trivandrum, it's real and you'll see everything you want in the space of a 30 minute tuk tuk ride. We headed into the railway station and went into the busy complaints/refunds/cancellations/bulk...

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...

The former District head nurse of Kerala and her ex CEO husband got off on the last stop before before Trivandrum and Vindeep as usual was the perfect gentleman, he helped them with their bags and made sure they were all sorted, we said goodbye to them and they also wished us a safe journey. I'm afraid I hadn't made much of an impression with them as I'd become quite withdrawn and at times bitter about this ride. The last few hours were probably not the hardest b...