Hello Everyone Well, after three days of terrible sea sickness, on a boat with 727 indians and being woken up with the noises of hocking and retching at about 5.30am, we're here in the Andaman Islands. It's absolutely beautiful here, idyllic! We've had a nice dinner of lemon rice and huge grilled tiger prawns tonight (for about 3.50, including beer) and I've bought some of the most effective travel sickness pills I've ever tried ready for the two-hou...

Hello everyone, Well, here I am back in India. Me and my friends Sadie and Russell flew out on Tuesday, arrived 1am (Indian time) Wednesday morning. So, we're still a bit tired from the flight - jetlag!!!!! Am in Chennai at the moment. Have booked tickets to the Andaman Islands (Indian islands off the coast of Burma), so should be there for Xmas and New Year. The boat leaves Chennai next Tuesday (13th December 2005) and arrives at Port Blair in the ...

Hello Everyone Am still in Bangalore. Am so ill still with this virus that I've decided to come home for a bit, get myself well. Fully intend to return with my friend Sadie on 6th December later this year. India is quite probably not best place to travel alone as a woman. I think I could cope with the staring and pointing if I had someone to travel round with. But I haven't and I feel poorly and I want my Mum!!!! Hope you're all doing better th...

Hi everyone. I'm in Bangalore now. The train trip over from Goa was pretty good (if a little obscure). I sat in a carriage with 59 teenagers who were returning to Chennai with 10 teachers from the school following a 5-day holiday in Goa. They were absolutely charming, talked English perfectly and were most interested in how life in the UK differed from that in India. One wonders whether British teenagers would be so charming if I were an Indian woman on ...

OK!!!! Finally got myself well enough to get out of The Alcove Hotel at Vagator in Goa, after suffering with a severe virus that ended up in a night in hospital. Am fine now but have an awful cough and bit of a runny nose. Have found some lozenges at a chemists which taste awful but seem to have soothed the savage beast. I think they might be slightly hallucinagenic as well, although it might just be because I've not eaten yet today and it's almost 1.30pm...