We have reached the historical port town of Melaka and first impressions are really satisfying but we had a bit of an adventure getting here!!! We left Singapore at 13.30 on a pre-booked bus from Kovan Bus Terminal which was direct. We arrived at the Singapore immigration and we were told to get off and make our way through. As usual this was really well organised and we got our bus on the other side. The bus took us over the causeway and we had to get off with ...

After a hair-raising drive (there was many in India but this was one of the worst) and a long wait (listening to Frosty the Snowman) we finally flew out of India on Monday night....phew!!Arriving in Singapore was wonderful, everything was clean and when we stepped outside the airport we could breath in fresh unpolluted air! There was no crazy driving and not a car horn beeping anywhere. We made our way to our Hostel, One Florence Close on the amazingly efficient ...

So here ends our Indian part of our journey, and we can certainly say its been an experience! There are so many things to love and hate about India. We have loved the way that everything seems to work here, things are done in a much more simple way (no health and safety regs seems to apply!) We have seen some breathtaking scenery and have noticed how important family life is here. We love the little communities we have seen particularly in the smaller places like...

So we reached Cochin on Thursday, this is our last port of call in India!! We are staying in Fort Cochin, Cohin itself is made up of three different places, and Fort Cochin is like a little Island. Its very pleasant here and reminds us of a mixture of an old English town with a bit of the medditeranean thrown in! We are staying in a very cute place and the owner looks a bit like Christopher Lloyd. On the shores here there are Chinese fishing nets that are used ev...

We arrive in Alleppey which is a major tourist hub on the backwater network. Our Journey was really smooth and the connection in Kollam was really easy. The journey took about 5 hours in total. When we left Kovalam a fellow backpacker from Holland appeared out of nowhere and jumped into the rickshaw for the journey to Trivandrum (this is where we caught the bus). We got chatting and found out she was also a Christian and we exchanged details. At Alle...