Where we learned the art of doing nothing Stayed at: Johnny's beach house, 6 nights Notes: Favourite breakfast haunt - Swiss Café (cheap and tasty and great chai!). Books finished; James - 4, Podgi - 0 We were up super early to get to the airport for our first flight to Mumbai at 7am. I had the whole contents of my hand luggage taken out by a very moody security person, not sure what they were looking at closer, but it all seemed very half-hearted! We had a 3...

Our bus to Udaipur was around midday, so thankfully didn't have to rush off anywhere super early. The tuk tuk took us to the 'bus stop' and it took us a while to work out that he hadn't just dropped us off somewhere random! We managed to sort out our tickets and sat down to wait. Although it was a sleeper bus, we'd just booked 2 seats - they allocated us the 2 at the very front - a good position for everyone to gawp at the only 2 whiteys on the bus! I dozed mos...

Our train to Jodhpur was at midday, so we had a nice leisurely morning drinking chai (how novel!). We were getting a lift to the station form the host and they checked the progress of the train before we left - just as well they did - it was running late (handy little tip; if you dial 139 from any Indian landline and you know your train number, you will be able to get a live progress report!)…only an hour delay, so not too bad by Indian standards, and as we w...

Up at 5am for another early train to Jaipur…turns out we could have had another hour in bed! Typically the train was delayed, but it wasn't too much of a bother, as we got chatting to a couple from Brazil (Tiago and Maria) and whiled away the time talking about travels, life and everything else. There wasn't AC chair class for our 5 and half hour journey, so we had booked into 2 tier AC sleeper class and as it was the sleeper train from Varanasi to Jodhpur the ...

Our first train in India, what fun! We had booked ourselves a seat in the AC Chair Class carriage, we thought we'd break ourselves in gently. It was nice and even borderline cold in the AC! With the ticket came breakfast, which was nothing to really write home about, but it was food, so we can't complain. We even got to do the British thing and drink our chai in our metal mugs! Luckily the train announced the stations as we were arriving, so we didn't need to w...