Blog 103 Never again will we travel by night bus in India! Maybe it was just a particularly bad bus ride but... Top bunk bed swinging around; mosquito's; windey windey roads and almost falling off the bunk; an hour stop evey few hours; and ants (luckily none nippy ones though). Get us back on the train route! Bleary eyed we walked in the morning peace and cool of Panaji town in Goa in search of accommodation. At 6am this was not so easy so we chilled on a str...

Blog 102 Happy anniversary Jo! Happy anniversary 246 Indian men on a train! Waking up groggily on a restless night on the sleeper train we were bombarded with a stream of men asking "coming from?" "How long in India?" "Going too?" With no variation you can imagine it got pretty tiresome, especially when each of them wanted a photo with us. We eventually got a chance to wish each other a happy anniversary and started eating our pomegranate breakfast with an ult...

Blog 101 Bangalore was a flying visit. Arriving on the 2pm train and leaving on the 10pm night train for Hampi, we had 6 hours to kill. Bangalore is a big big traffic congested city with history dotted around the place. We made our day about restaurants, bars and shops. Booked onto the second class AC waiting list for the night train out of town we kept our fingers and toes crossed for a smidgen of room for us to sleep the night away. First stop infinitea, a t...

Blog 100 The first night was spent in Khan's rickshaw, hunting for the rare non-damp room. Bryn has somehow developed a chesty cold over the past 2 days. Goodness knows how in near 40°c heat. Anyway we forked out a full £10 for a decent hotel room and were treated like royalty for it. After taking up an hour of Khan's time we scrapped the agreed 30p for finding us a room and gave him £2 to which he immediately asked whether we wanted him to show us the si...

Blog 99 The road to Wayanad was a far cry from the dusty roads of lowland India. In the western ghats, hairpin bends are flanked by luscious forests filled with cheeky monkeys. Every break in the tree line gives views of the land falling away for miles and miles. Award for best bus ride in Asia goes to...And all for 19p :) Arriving in Sulthan Batteri was like arriving at a hangover after a night of merriment, chaos in the country side. But we found a quiet h...