Next stop...Indonesia Our flights to Singapore and onto Jakarta all went well, although landing in Singapore where the airport was in full Christmas mode, with decorations and Christmas songs everywhere reminded us of what we were missing back home. To console ourselves we headed straight to Starbucks and indulged in a Christmas coffee! On arrival in Jakarta we boarded an air conditioned bus that left straight after we got on, with no-one shouting, no loud music...

Phrases: India 'One Minute' - The term an Indian person uses to expain how long you have to wait for something...usually 10 times longer! 'Monkeys slap Dogs' - Apparently this does happen in India...You Tube it! 'Fu**ing India!' - At all times of stress in India- used a lot! 'Mind the sh*t' - Cow poo / rubbish everywhere! 'Anything is possible in India' - An Indian's excuse whenever something ridiculously weird / awful is happening 'Paneer Belly' - our...

Slumdog Millionaire Another train journey with general tickets...another stress over seats. This time we went straight for the 'Second Class' carriage, created for those with General Tickets, but which tourists are often warned away from for being notoriously dirty, with common bag theft and with very few women ever being in the carriage. However, we decided it couldn't be any worse than other general train journeys we had done, or battling cockroaches, so ...

Exploding Cockroaches We arrived in Goa on the 17th November and planned to spend a week or so relaxing near the end of our trip through India. The trip to Goa itself was by far our worst experience on Indian trains thus far, where we had to resort to sitting on the floor next to the toilets for 17 hours as we couldn't get a seat and had no luck trying to convince the ticket inspector to find us some; he infact threatened to fine us as we were on the wrong coa...

Backwaters of Kerala After a good nights' sleep under our mosquito net we woke to see the location of our home-stay for the first time; the canal on one side of us and flooded rice paddies on the other. During breakfast on the veranda area we were able to watch the infamous Keralan houseboats chugging up and down the canal, ferrying tourists through the backwaters of Kerala. On our first day in Kerala we got a small ferry for the 10 minute journey along the ca...