The past week has been packed full. It started last tuesday with a visist in the evening to to the Golden Temple. It is relatively new temple and has beautiful gardens and the temple itself was certainly gold- it was spectacular at night. It also helps set the mood when there are hundreds of Indians there to pray. To get to the actual temple you have to walk around a paved star shape that is 1.8km long - its quite clever really because you see the temple from all...

On friday just passed I chucked a sickie and headed off for Mysore/bangalore on an overnight train on thursday night. However, karma must have kicked in because I managed to get the flu off someone and was a bit sick for the weekend- but it didn't stop me- just had to utlise my travel first aid/drugs. It was my first experience on an Indian train- we (Billie -australian med student) had decided to go for 2 a/c which is one below he best class and suss out what th...

The weekend saw us take a road trip to Pondicherry. It has two halves an french quarter (the nicer half!) and the tamil/indian quarter. the french colonised this are for a while and relinquished control some 50 years ago or so. Whilst its on the coast its not somewhere that you want to swim- the waves crash in to rocks that look like a break-wall and then on top of that theres 2m of kitty litter sand! We came with about 12 others! There were 9 girls in one room ...

We're here! And finally Have manged to get a few things sorted out and get the interent up and running. Firstly- everything in India takes forvever, the people are in no rush despite the madness on the streets and not many are willing to help. But as negative as that sounds I'm loving every second!! Except the toilets- they stink, literally. We arrived at Chennai on friday and stayed one night which was enough as the language barrier and culture diffrerence was g...