Madurai has a wonderful temple, full of life and visited by 20,000 or so Hindus everyday. It also has amazing food, an air conditioned hotel and satellite television. So far we have watched In Her Shoes with Cameron Diaz, The Jungle Book with Mowgli, Ransom with Mel Gibson, a lot of Indian music channels (which included one short adaptation of Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, dubbed over with some Bollywood pop music), and our personal favourite Trey Parker an...

Jenny: ello ello ello! hope you are all smashing! well, Colshy has let me write this one because it involves lots of animals and animals are my forte (or the only thing that I can be bothered writing about!) Right, Hampi is lovely. Now onto the animals..... hehe only kidding, Hampi actually does deserve a bit of time! Its seriously gorgeous. Describing it doesnt really do it justice, but i'll try. Colin thinks it looks a bit like 'a dusty Harris'. The landscap...

I didn't really want to go to Goa because it sounded a bit generic, like a package-holiday nightmare in Spain. It did, in the end, resmble the Iberian Penninsula but in a really fantastic and interesting way. Where we were based, the state capital Panaji, is still dominated by Catholicism and its Portuguese heritage, comprised as it is almost entirely by Portuguese style housing and magnificent churches and cethedrals. We stayed in a partly open-plan house dating...

Colsh: Party bum: think Danny Singh's, 16.4 million people in the queue, 16 million boxes of pakora, a few spicy chicken pizzas, chips. It's nothing like that actually. But when we arrived at 1am we thought we had made the biggest mistake of our lives; the obligatory sense of horror you're supposed to feel when you arrive here at first. Luckily, when the sun rose it cast a little light over the darkened sprawl of shanty houses, 40,000 sleeping taxi drivers in t...