hey everyone! These past few weeks we have been busy and not so busy! We went to a hill station called OOty which was quite cold. To get up there we had to take the 'toy train' which took about 5 hours but is apparently the most scenic route and it really was! The views were wicked of all the tea plantations and everything. We also saw lots of monkeys on the way up! Ooty itself is a really pleasent town we really liked it! It kinda reminded me of ireland how it ...

Hello! Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone, hope it was a good one! It was strange not being with friends and family but it ended that we made a temporary family in Varkala anyhow, which distracted us from being homesick and still sort of made it Christmassy. But it took us a week to get there… From Pondicherry we got a very bumpy busride to Trichy, but we couldn't stay there because it was 'marriage day' and so went straight to Trivandum. This...

helllloooo! we've just arrived in mamarrapulam! Our first few days were mad- katie was sick but ironically from a bug caught from Alice at home- we haven't had the wrath of Indian diorrea yet (touch wood). Bangalore is soooooooo polluted so first impressions were insane- we thought we saw a guy who was dead, but turened out he wasn't- but when people thought he was they all just ran away! We fouund a nice resturant and had a biryani, yummy, and some nice tiny lit...

OK! so we've been here for three days now and have just arrived in Mamarapullam, which is a sea-side village. We were quie relieved when we got here because we saw other travellers! Which is not the experience we had in Bangalore. We were in Bangalore for about 3 days, but only because we missed our train out of there, so had to stay an extra night! It wasn't too bad but when we first arrived we got the shock of our lives. In the cab to the hotel we nearly crash...