Sooo were on the beach being marauded by about 30 kids....as is commonplace over here...and an upswelling from the depths of my bowels forces me to consider finding a toilet. As luck would have it there are no toilets for a million miles in any direction so naturally a bush seems the next logical step. There was no bush. Or at least no bush without locals in clear view going about their daily business so suddenly the sea becomes an appealing alternative. I trie...

<p>After meeting up with the girls for breakfast we headed to Kollam where we expected to spend a night on the beach and do the backwaters trip the next day. We stayed 10 minutes, bought a terrible ice cream and decided that it would probably be better for all involved if we went back to the train station and left fairly swiftly to pastures new.</p> <p>So back on the train to Alappuzha we went. It seemed simple enough until the ticket inspector...