Sandfort Grr.. We arrived at 5:30am after sleeping above a fat man with a snoring problem so not much sleep and to top it off our hostel didn't pick us up, as promised. Our taxi driver did a great job of waking half the neighbourhood to find our hostel and then woke the guys, who were supposed to collect us, with such force that they offered us their blankets on the floor until our room was ready. I got some sleep and was awoken by James saying 'Emily, Emily d...

Weddings, Safaris and an Impressive Fort Another city and another early morning arrival, thankfully our hostel owners Mum woke everyone up by shouting 'Imram, Imram' until her son finally emerged looking as exhausted as us. He let us into our room and we went straight back to sleep. We would have slept right through until mid-morning if it wasn't for a brass band, drums and a raucous crowd who woke us from our slumber. I went to the rooftop, with a bloody goo...

Gateway to India Another sleeper train rolled into Victoria Terminus at 6:30am, we woke bleary eyed but reasonably well rested after our posh end of the carriage seats. Our hostel was located in the Fort area and after a delicious breakfast of Khemma and Pav at a local restaurant we got into our room. We had five full days in Bombay and managed to explore all the main tourist areas and sights within that time, as well as losing half our body weight in sweat! ...

Another spot recommended by KB and boy did she do well with this one! Before we even arrived we had high expectations with the combination of KB's praise and the hippies in Anjuna repeatedly telling us how great it was, it had a lot to live up to. Luckily it did not disappoint and it has been our favourite place in the South. It is hard to describe the landscape of Hampi so I am going to steal descriptions from two other sources. The first one being Ja...

Road Hog and Hippies Despite the heeded warnings Anjuna town was laid back and peaceful with the only high influx of people being hippies, or perhaps this is where they stayed after the heyday of Goa ended in the 90's. The beach, a 20 minute walk from our guest house had a few popular bars but the majority were small shacks with sun loungers littering the beach front. In spite of the popularity, Goa it is not well serviced with interstate buses. It took us fo...