Hi Everyone,I am now in a town called Madurai, which is in the centre of Tamil Nadu, south India. Since my last entry from Palolem quite a lot has happened.Sam left Palolem to return home to start his new job and so I am now travelling on my own. I left Palolem on the same day and went to Panjim, the capital of Goa. Panjim is quite a nice city as it has lots of old Portuguese buildings lining the maze of narrow streets that you wander around and get lost in. Whil...

Hi Everyone, I am now at Palolem Beach in Goa. We've been here for a couple of weeks as Sam has been a bit ill and as it is now the end of his holiday, we have just been relaxing instead of busy sightseeing. Palolem is a nice big crescent shaped beach and there are also a couple of smaller beaches further along the coast to go and see. However, we've mainly stayed here and I've been enjoying my little routine here of getting up for a morning...

Hi EveryoneI am now in a little coastal village called Gokarn in the region of Karnataka. It is a bit of a hippy area and complete with long-term resident hippies with the usual dreadlocks, yin and yang tatoos and smoking lots of weed. There are quite a few beaches here and we have stayed in a guest house in Gokarn village, as well as in little beach huts on Ketlee Beach, Paradise Beach and Om Beach (named after its shape representing the Om symbol). You have to ...

Hi Everyone,I am now in a little hill town called Munnar in Kerala. We had a six hour extremely crowded and very bumpy bus journey through the Cardomom Hills to get here. I had to sit in the Ladies section at the back and due to the lack of suspension I spent at least a third of the journey in mid air! This was not helped by the speed that we drove (or rather flew) at around the narrow roads with hairpin bends on the extremely steep hillsides.  I clutched at...

Hi Everyone Happy New Year. Hopefully you all had a slightly better New Year's Eve than I did....I saw it in with my head down a toilet bowl thanks to a bad dose of food poisoning. However, on the plus side it has helped me try and get my figure back for hitting the beaches. I am now in Kerala, south India and staying at a beach area called Kovalam. It has made a welcome change to relax on the beach, after so much sightseeing in north India. Whilst ...