Hotel Mangalore International

... operated a 24hr checkout policy, in other words, we had to check out by 4.30am the next day. So we paid for another night..what's 4 quid when you need to sleep eh? After a long sleep, we ate our first lunch in Udupi. Udupi has a number of 'meal' joints which serve a limited range of 'meals'...which are, errr, meals - everything you need all on one plate. So our first lunch was iddli with sambar and sambol. Iddli are steamed rice cakes, sambar is a tangy stew, and the sambol was made ...

... to watch, and today we have just a had mooch around. There is not much to do or see here, but it has a certain charm to it, especially the old part near the temple, so I'm glad we used it as a break on our way to Kerala. We did call in on the astrologer that is based in our hotel, but after Sumi had her charts read, I decided not to bother. Apparantly, she need him to take a puja at the temple for her, and in order for her problems ...

... plays hide and seek, a covered passage of granite and kadaba stones leads to the Restaurant simply elegant with wide brick arches and a high tiled ceiling, walk through windows titles "Memories of Joanna" Apparently the owners are the 6th Generation from the renounced Joanna and the restaurant is a celebration of the ancient culture and tradition of the Albuquerque Family. The restaurant conveys a distinct British ...

... of the tr*in, we *ll got re*dy with the b*gs. The tr*in stopped there. And we *ll st*rted running. The st*tion m*ster w*s shouting *t us from behind, but we ignored him. Ar*thi, Vij*y* *nd me bo*rded first followed by the guys. Luckily the tr*in st*rted only *fter *ll of us bo*rded it. The r*ilw*y employees who were in th*t comp*rtment *sked us whether we c*me trekking on the tr*cks *nd commented it w*s not * good ide* to do so. As we h*d no tickets (*nd ...

... a cloud of lethargy, we admitted defeat and spent most of our time repaying the sleep debt, watching tennis, and getting just a little bit homesick at seeing the sunwashed stands and strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. After all the grubby, noisy, godforsaken coach journeys we've experienced in the past few months, we really should have known better. But tempted by the bargain tickets, we only went and did it again, finding ourselves booked onto another overnight bus to ...

... clean, dump a couple of pitchers down the toilet, making sure that you wash away any misses, and stand. I find it is easier to just take your shorts or pants off for the "constitutional," as this makes it much easier to get into position, and also precludes any type of disastrous bad aim. . . If the big bucket is low on water, let the tap run while you are doing your business, it is polite to fill the bucket for the next person. It is also polite to thoroughly rinse the sides ...

... need to have permission from the parents to marry. . . Well, Swipe was about to fall victim to this scam, she was saying how she wanted to marry this man, she had met his father (who gave her a bunch of old coins, saying they were valuable to sell in the west. . .) he had given her tours, dinners, romance, the whole 9 yards, and she said she thought she was falling in love with him, and that she was going to buy a ticket from him by credit card to fly within India to somewhere ...

... their nice executive and finance jobs is quite sad.....but that is a discussion for another time.... they have no kids and the rest of the family has not supported them at all....so they are on their own...somehow they make ends meet by selling some vegetables or getting some money from people in our family....it's really tough for them to make ends meet...because of having no kids, and the wife has to spend all day taking care of her crippled husband, it does not leave a lot of ...

... the Sita river were funny. But after all it was more like a relaxing canoe trip only the trees in the middle of the swollen river gave a good explanation for the helmet. Often the water forced our boat close to big branches, the twigs scratching over us. Hard rainfalls drummed onto us and I am amazed by the landscape through which we were floating. A huge river and on both sides juicy green dripping wet forests. From time to time some birds can be seen. Beautiful blue ...