We had to get up to leave for the train station at 6.30. Trains either seem to stay at the station for ages or not stay very long at all so we got on any carriage, not wanting to miss it. Going down a busy carriage with huge rucksacks weren't fun! We managed to get seats (and rope in a man's help to put our bags on the overhead rack). There were some Christian boys who had guitars who wanted us to play/sing Christmas songs with them. The chocolate and cashew nu...

We both woke up quite early so we set off for a stroll to the nearest cash point (considering how touristy and relatively expensive things are you'd have thought there would be one nearer). However we had to ask for a lot of directions because the map was so rubbish and once we had got to it and followed the signs to the beach, discovered that one of our direction advisers had pointed us to a longer, and steeper uphill route, but at least we got some (very hot,...

Had a nice lie in today (8.30 was the latest we managed!) and then went to see if there was a pharmacy on the beach front (you don't want to know what that was for but I'm sure it's easy to guess… we're in India after all). There was only a natural remedies type place but we didn't really understand how we were supposed to get help. We booked onto our South Indian cookery class for tomorrow. There were 6 sections to select 1 from each and we were quite dec...

We made ourselves Nutella and banana coconut buns for breakfast and then went to the tourist office, where we were picked up in a minibus to be taken to Munroe Island for our backwaters tour. Joining us on this excursion was Eric, a Californian travelling in India for 5 months (he was 2 months in). He told us about some Canadian man who had hired a car, didn't have a road map and was going to navigate himself using the sun -absolute nutter! The lonely planet de...