06/10/2013 Went for a venture for a SIM card today to put in my mobile. Means the folks back home can ring me and it won't cost me a penny. Sending texts and calling is also ridiculously cheap as well. Was asking some Indian guy of any phone shops on the cliff and a random passer by just jumped in told me where it was, think she was an Aussie lass. Turns out it was past Temple beach, this is the southern beach. I had a walk down and it was full of locals, w...

30/09/2012 Awoke very early (8am) to check out. 24hr checkout is common here in India so since I arrived at 10:30am on my first day that's what time I got booted out three days later. Handed over my brown bag, trainers and earplugs to the guy who worked there as a 'gift' (kind of?) and left to buy a train ticket over the road. Had a quick shoot to a phone shop who said he would sell me a sim but he was closed. Typical. Went to a place called babas and boug...

27/09/2013 Could only barter 50 rupee off the taxi drives 350 initial offer, but every little counts I made the effort to stress trivandrum station not varkala and I was away. Not going to lie it was slightly nerve racking, not for the fact the driving was absolute MENTAL, kind of like ordered chaos where the horn is king, but the fact I was bricking it cause I seemed to be travelling further than I thought it would be. We went down smaller roads etc and I wa...

Got my bag and tried to go through to departures but was told I was too early so I waited in the main area, where I met a young 20 year old Indian called Prasenth, who was studying engineering at Mysore waiting for his flight home. Was good to have someone to chat to and he was very helpful. Waited 8 hours with him and watched the world go by. Lots and lots of Indians! Felt a lot like Kuwait and this helped. Oh and lots of moustaches, an all year round movembe...