What a performance!! Must say that early morning is not my best time. The guys in our compartment got out about 2am and they disappeared out of the compartment quite a while before the train stopped. I didn't sleep much after that. Sometime during the night the train had changed direction. When we set off I had my back to the engine (though it d...

Arrived early in the morning. Hospet is a very small town, one street, lots of people though. Like 100,000 or something. We relaxed this morning and took a tuk tuk to Hampi, the main attraction of the area, in the afternoon. Really, really strange ride....I really find it hard to believe that children can act that way. I might expand on this, bu...

Established in 13th. century the Vijaynagar empire had a glorious run for almost 250 years. Hampi was the proud capital of the empire during its golden days in the beginning 1500.

We stayed here only for a small time and took a rickshaw to Hampi. This was my first time on a rickshaw, but otherwise nothing noteworthy.

We're leaving Hampi to Udaipur to meet with Tomer. It's gonna be a long ride: a private bus from Hospet to Mumbai and a train from Mumbai to Udaipur.

I should know better than to accept offers of hotels from rickshaw wallahs by now.. but no, every now and then I think "well, I'll just take a look". So it was upon my arrival in Pune. He had a brochure from this hotel which made it look very nice, and he told me he'd show me this hotel for Rs.10. However when we got there I didn't even get a ch...

We went to visit Louise today in the worst hospital I've ever seen in my life...I'm talking circa 1920's. Of our sick experiences amongst the group thus far consisting of concussion, surface wounds, , food poisoning...no matter what it is that you complain of, they have an "injection" to fix it. I have a sneaking suspicion that its all the exact...