We flew into Cochi airport, about 2 hours late, so were pleased to see that our hotel had sent the taxi to collect us. We'd met a really nice couple at the airport called Lauren and Andy, so they jumped in the cab with us tired and hungry after a full day of travelling. En route our driver got bumped by a lorry and proceeded to chase down the lorry at high speed ..... when he finally got the lorry to stop all hell broke loose and they started to have a fight. No...

Nice flight from Amritsar...only just made it across Dehli in time though for the connecting train. Five mins to spare pushing past the hustlers at New Dehli and no baksheesh for the driver. Teacher voice had to be deployed to scare people off, came in more useful later on it turned out. Met a young canadian couple on the train, they had only been in India a few days and viewed us as some sort of Gurus after our 2 weeks experience. Thez were of to Benares, but a...

Hi all, we are currently in Kerala writing this up on a computer keyboard that has loads of the letters swapped around so if the spelling is a bit wonky sorrz about that... Thanks so much for all the messages, keep them coming, its great to hear from you all while were awaz. We havent been able to get to the internet for quite a while now so this is a bit of a retrospective from Amritsar.... Amritsar was great and we really liked our time in the Punjab, lovely ...

Well it's our last evening at Dharamsala/McLeod Ganj, and we've had a really great time and will be sorry to go! The rains stopped at last (though we've had a bit more today just for good measure) and we've eaten great food and had one or two kingfishers.... just like back home in blighty! We have had tea with HH Dalai Lama (along with 1000 other people) for the last two days. He was in very good form, lots of warmth and humour and some amazingly simple words o...

Hello, we have finally got to Mcleod Ganj after a little oddysey! The flight to Dharamsala was cancelled (it was raining..a lot) so we had to improvise. The nice airport security man thought our luggage was heavy so helped to lighten our load by taking 20 quid when we weren't looking. Thanks. We then had a bit of a palava getting to various train stations in Delhi to book an overnight sleeper train to Pathankot, Punjab. Absolute luxury! Well, not quite but appare...