Blog : Mumbai We flew from Jodhpur to Mumbai, on a plane that once again was pretty empty. And were amazed when our bags came round the carousel almost immediately. Kate managed to sort out booking us a 'cool cab' at the pre-paid taxi booth in the airport, to take us to our hotel which was good and necessary as stupidly the transport connections to the airport from the city centre are s***. Outside the airport were a few shops and bits and we got our first taste...

Blog : Hyderabad The Hyderabad bus was long, cold and uncomfortable and according to Nelen, who went to sit up front with the driver so she could get off quicker to be sick at stops, terrifying! We all sort of rolled off the bus at a stop that the lady next to us said was close to our guesthouse and obviously looked like newbies again so the tuktuk drivers took the piss with prices. With our big backpacks on and standing at the side of a busy road at 6am we look...

Blog : Hampi It was a crap train journey to Hospet, as we were so smelly from being in our clothes for two days straight and sweating at every moment; even changing didn't really take the whiff away! The beds were particularly uncomfortable and it was absolutely freezing! We arrived to Hospet, the city just outside of the UNESCO Hampi site, pretty early in the morning and got two tuktuks to a guesthouse we'd picked from LP but not booked. As it was out of season...

Blog : Bangalore We arrived to Bangalore City Junction station in a bit of a rush, I'd literally woken up ten minutes earlier and as the stop wasn't the end of the train we had to get off pretty quickly, which isn't as easy done as said, with four big backpacks between us and another four day sacks, plus more passengers in the way and we were all starving! The station was absolutely massive but we managed to find the luggage counter, that our Juice shack boy had...

Blog : Kerela (Verkala) We landed into Cochin in South West India - Kerela state - pretty early in the morning, 8:30am or something and it felt like midday, having been awake for such a long time! The first thing I noticed when we got of the plane was how green it was everywhere and the heat, which for once didn't seem to be stifling! The girls said it was sort of how they imagined Barbados to be, especially when we got outside to the taxi rank and all the cars ...