14/4/2011 Argument with hotel owner trying to tell us it was 300 per night when we agreed 200! He was outside our room most of the day but we just told him no. Chris almost gave in but I was having none of it! Had a little trek to Vizhinjam seeing the mass of fishing boats, temples, impressive sea defences, buildings and a cricket match in the heat of the day. So many kids for the first time asking for "school pen" of which we couldn't help. Some lit...

13/4/2011 The Danish lads were supposed to cook for us on some course but when we met them they had already eaten! So we offed them and went for scrambled egg and pepsi! Chilled on beach and in crazy waves again. Can't emphasise how powerful they are. Try bodyboarding and then just letting yourself go and the force of the water smashes you somersaulting you closer to shore. Can get quite scary sometimes if it holds you under for a while! I trekked up the hill...

12/4/2011 Moved down the beach after a little bit of cheap hotel hunting and saving ourselves 50 each a night. Nicer place too with half a sea view and a nice first floor balcony. Pigged out on food to accommodate for yesterday's lack of. Tuna sandwiches, pasta, chicken and chips. Yum yum. Enjoyed the crazy waves and the not-so-stunning black/yellow sandy beaches. Bumped into two Danish lads we met in Anjuna before a cracking thunderstorm forced us to take s...

11/4/2011 Got up at half 9 for a backwater trip. Equipped with a water and a mango juice, it was a brief motorbike ride with the two of us on to our launch point. Expecting to be with other people, we had agreed 500 rupees each and all we had was one guy rowing us around for nearly six hours! But in saying that, it was one awesome experience. Whilst watching the bigger luxury boats speed past and making noise with their engines, we were softly floating along ...

10/4/2011 Did a day of sightseeing. First of all we visited the Santa Cruz Basilisc Church (a nice catholic church) and then walked kilometres through local streets experiencing people in their day-to-day lives. There were so many butchers in the area, something we had hardly seen more north because they don't eat much meat. But here, lots of open shops with dead and hacked animal parts on show for you to buy. Only turn off was the mass of flies on everything an...