We were up and waiting in the reception of our hotel for 7.30am this morning! Ready and willing for our day trip to Pondicherry. Unfortunately, Sarah was feeling very much under the weather, with a mother of a stomach ache and feeling generally achy and pathetic! After sleeping most our the bus journey (which set off an hour late!) she was feeling better and continued to get better throughout the day. Our first stop, on our slightly disappointing day trip, wa...

Yesterday we awoke early in Bangalore to the hum and horns of the traffic outside and after getting ready our first stop was to the phone and internet poin to try and get in touch with another of Uncle John's friends - Siddarth. Unfortunately we could not contact him so we made our own way by rickshaw to the ISKCON temple in the north of the city. The temple was a large, modern, glass structure and was very well organised, although also very commercialised. Thr...

Yesterday Sarah woke early, having not been able to sleep much due to itchy sun-sore skin! We were both re-packed and ready to leave the room by 10.30am-ish, the lady kindly let us leave our bags in the room until we were ready to catch our bus into Mapusa for our bus to Bangalore. We spent the morning shopping for provisions for our journey, which included crisps, cookies and Danish pastries, then had an early lunch of cheese, tomatoe and egg (!) toasties and ...

Yesterday morning we made our way through Anjuna, stopping for a chocolate doughnut for breakfast, and onto the bus for a day at Baga Beach. We arrived at the beach around 11.30am and were immediately surrounded by the watersports salesmen who had tried to talk us into their products when we had visited on Saturday! They even remembered our names! One of them was dressed in a Sheffield United shirt - Laura immediately discarded his services and we decided to use ...

Yesterday we spent the morning lolling on the beach in Anjuna - trying to cover our burnt hands (thats right, HANDS! - we've never had burnt hands before either, so watch out for that, if you come here!). We left the unbearably scorching beach around 1.00pm and headed back to our room to shower and freshen up before getting the bus to Calangute. On arriving in Calangute we walked up the main road to the neighbouring resort of Baga, occasionally stopping in th...