Hi all Thankyou for your comments - we do look forward to the responses so please keep them coming. The beach has been great and we have finally had to drag ourselves away and leave, not least because we really could not eat any more food. There were a few tears from mama masala as we left. They were a great family. Tam had a full facial on the last day, the therapist was suppose to come at 4pm and turned up as we were getting into bed at 9.30pm. The facial by a...

Hi all I thought I would share with you lunch at our homestay. We have called the cook mama masala, she really does cook great food (sorry Mrs B and mum!!) Mama masala presents the food then comes back 10 minutes later to ensure we are still eating! She is not happy if we are not - I dont know if that is an Indian thing or just a mother one!! Today we had asked for one veg and as you can see the "one" was lost in translation. Oh well, sitting here now...

Hello all I thought I had better put a blog up and give Tam a little break! I must be honest I am quite lazy to sit in front of a computer (other than to get the Baggie results), and thanks for letting me know the results, suzanne and sarah. You will be pleased to hear that we both have recovered from the mountains/cold/bloody tablets that were given by an Indian style chemist! I must quickly mention our journey from McCloud to Manali. A 10 hour journey via moun...

Hi everyone I know its been a while since 'lunch 8 days ago' when I promised to continue writing. We had an eventful couple of days after that. We have almost updated a few photos of our whereabouts so hopefully will bring you up to date soon. I know no one will have any sympathy but if its not not finding a cafe its very slow, full of mosquitos and hot! Anyway in a nutshell.......... We are now in Kerala! We left home fully equipped with our malaria tablet...

Well almost a month into our travels we are now in the mountains about 6ooo feet. Its beautiful, cold, traffic free,and relaxing. This morning we walked up to meadow which had views on both sides of the himalayan range. Still trying to catch up with where we last left off - I think the last blog ended with Jaipur. We travelled another 5 hours to a hill holy village called Pushka. The hotel was great, beautiful gardens and a swimming pool - and yes we did get in....