The Anjuna market was amazing! Completely hectic though. I got really good at hageling! Me and Emma lost each other but both ended up on the beach where we spent the afternoon sprawled on our sarongs. That was on the 20th. The 21st was a whole different ball game. We got the famous India food poisoning. I wont go into details but it was a disgusting day. Feel very weak today and on a lot of medice but very glad we've seen the worst of it. As the doctor said 'it's...

Last night we went to an India boat party a little different to parties at home... I loved the way no one cared how they looked they just danced till their hearts content. It was great and everyone- couples, men, women, children wanted to dance near the only two white girls on the boat! Was very funny. Its taken me a few days to get used to the stares i had no idea it was going to be this bad. When me and emma walk past people stop what they're doing point and st...

After our 1st night we moved to more contral Mumbai were there was a bit less poverty and i started to see another side of India. We wanted to book a train to Goa and sorting it out took some time but now we have a train guide magazine and know how the trains work so next time it will be much easier. It was hard to know what to eat in Mumbai and we went for a chinese meal and i enjoyed the first half of it but then persuaded myself that what i was eating was not ...

Mumbai is very different to how i imagined it would be. Its a city so I thought there would be less poverty than other parts. Theres poverty everywhere. Its so different to what we're used to and so different to anywhere else i've ever been. Its hard to describe. You have to have a hard heart to walk around Mumbai and i'm guessing other parts of India as well. It's s stark contrast between extreme poverty and extreme beauty one minute you'll be looking and sick b...