9/4/2011 Up early doors with me sick as a dog and on the bus to Coimbatore and a further one to Ernakulam. A pretty horrendous journey with me hanging on to the doors of the bus in front of the driver and conductor, vomiting onto the open road as we were driving. You just had to laugh about it. As much as I struggled I managed to refrain a few seconds from coating the locals walking down the hill! I tried drinking lots of water to combat it but that also couldn'...

8/4/2011 Up and out and straight on the bus to Ooty. Joined by several trannys that decided to sit next to me which Chris found funny and I felt a tad uncomfortable with how they were looking at me and my legs. Apparently they were looking at my builders bum when I went to pick something up - eeewwwww. They kept trying to talk to us but I was reluctant to engage in a conversation with some of the most blatent adam's apples, big hands and hairy arms I've ever see...

7/4/2011 Arrived in Bangalore at 6.30am but decided to go straight to Mysore. Queing for tickets, people are so rude, they literally have no system and everyone just pushes in. It is extremely annoying. People thread their money and tickets through the glass to the staff and when I tried to squeeze from the side like others, the woman sent me back! So I pushed back in as I had still been waiting a while, only for some old-ish man to start shouting. He probably h...

6/4/2011 Woke up to barter for a checkout time agreeing 50 yet again! I lost the coin toss so I had the unfortunate task to get a bus to Hospet, walk a couple of kilometres to the train station, buy the tickets walk back and then catch another bus back! Had lunch but not many places around the area served meat in their meals! So I had to go five without any! Never again! Chris and I then hit a stunning riverside bar called the Mango Tree Restaurant. Leant again...

5/4/2011 Rented a scooter for the day for about 2.50 each and explored many of Hampi's illustrious temples, ruins, rock faces, boulders, sculptures and breathtaking scenery. Chris drove us straight to the first big area of temples and ruins right in the centre of the town (town pretty much being a long road, riverside and bazaar) where we climbed around observing all of the ancient ruins. It looked like something out of Predator with all the banana and palm tr...