Ken woke up feeling a lot better today so off we went to visit the local Rail Museum, as recommended by the Lonely Planet Guide. Since travelling on the 2 foot gauge Toy Train in Darjeeling we have both become a bit "Train Spotter" so that's our excuse. It's quite interesting actually and is a nice quiet spot away from the traffic - so quiet one staff member managed to remain asleep at the door to the building containing an 1899 Carriage previously owned and...

Hi-ho. Just a quick note to let you know we are still here. We've had trouble getting WiFi access, hence the lack of updates. We are having breakfast at the Parklane Hotel in Mysore at present - this Hotel is so far above those we have stayed in previously that no comparison can be made. I just looked up to order another pot of coffee and there were five Waiters looking back hopefully. Pretty good but this still does not beat our record set back in 2006 in Mum...

11-2-2012 - Tour of Royal Enfield Factory - Tiruvottiyur, Chennai. We had originally phoned the Enfield factory from Mumbai, only to find that the tour for 11/2/2012 was fully booked and there was no way we could get in on that date. That was pretty much the end of that but we had decided to visit the Factory in any case, just to see what we could see. With some prompting from Des we decided to visit on the Saturday tour date just in case by some miracle s...

A good day in Chennai today, starting with a Masala Dosa and very nice milk tea for breakfast and then off by Auto Rickshaw to the Ramakrishna Mutt Temple for a look-see - with a name like this you would have to check it out surely. This is a relatively new building and it was being repainted inside and out whilst we were there. If you look at the photo's you may agree that it resembles a large fancy, pale pink wedding cake. This Temple caters for any fai...

Not much in the way of tourism today as Des had a migraine for most of the day - just a miserable time for her. We did manage to get out to the Central Railway Station and got our Tickets on a Shatabdi Express to Mysore for the 13th. A seven hour trip in AC (Air-con) Coach Chair class for a total of $30.00. Tickets had already sold out but Indian Railways puts aside a number of seats for Foreigners - a Foreign Quota it's called. This involved tracking down the ...