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Here's the first lot of videos that I've uploaded to YouTube. I keep saying I'll do this and finally I am. I've also found there's a daily upload limit so there will be some more links added here over the next couple of days. Flute player at Taj Bangalore Bengaluru Cochin Cultural Centre at...

more of the hotel We had an appointment that night and needed to get a gift. First place I thought was the hotel gift shop but it was just expensive crafts. bAlt rescued me from a potential ill advised purchase there. We then decided tea or sweets and both were at shops 650m up the road. We...

We didn’t have a lot of supplies with us for the five and a half hour journey. Just a starter bottle of water. We needn’t have worried about getting food or water as it was constant from about five minutes out of Chennai station and it just didn’t stop. It was hilarious. Cooked meals in boxes...

Day 13: Chennai to Bengaluru, 08.01 5:00 alarm, way too bloody early to wake-up on this very relaxed holiday, but we had a train to catch at 7:25 and we weren’t going to miss it. Many would wonder why we didn’t fly but this trip was all about experiences and an Indian train was a must. I...

and we're sat in the Sydney J lounge after a 60 minute late departure from BLR and 45 minute late arrival into Sydney. A lovely long connection here so time for a final bubbles, or two. More on the return later. Day 12: Chennai, 07.01 After a fairly rugged night it wasn't looking good for much...

view down to teh street from our room. Fascinating bAlt was dead keen on me getting out and about and I wasn't but eventually I did. There was a waffle shop down on the corener so I went and comforted myself with this red velvet delight as delicioulsy disgusting as it looks Then I thought...

Once the buses left and the dogs stopped barking we slept well in a very nice bed. Down to breakfast and it was like a different hotel. The restaurant was packed. It looks like a group had arrived for a conference. Some people had commented on lack of choice at breakfast but we found a good...

We were practising at our local before we came away and will continue when we get home :)

It is! We have become quite dab hands. It clearly catches some people by surprise when we start eating with our hand, right only of course

Dinner at Grand Continent was quite the experience. I think the staff were literally shocked people walked into the restaurant. Of course no alcohol as the space that has the licence isn't operating. So many things weren't available. bAlt's gut had started to say no to spice so he just wanted...

there's more the butter ball and on to the Light House and the temple beside it sunset over Mahabalipuram and finally to Ramesh's icecream on the cake, Pancha Rathas, the Five Rathas we then stopped at a stone carving studio where a guy showed how he carved some incredible stone...

It was then to here. The site map has it all just incredible. How these caves were cut into the basalt and then refined into detailed temples is unbelievable the beginning Arjuna’s Penance. We've not eevr seen anything like it. When it rains heaviliy wtaer flows down the Ganga and pools...

A guide was again included here to explain the Group of Monuments of Mahabalipuram. How wiki describes the monuments as a group - The site has 40 ancient monuments and Hindu temples,including one of the largest open-air rock reliefs in the world: the Descent of the Ganges or Arjuna's Penance...

As with everywhere else we’d stayed, the room was ready and uniform man took us up. Great sized room and this was the smallest (of course). It had a nice view of the carpark and the buses parked on the road outside. It just looked a bit worn. This was strange, as we looked it up and the hotel...

Day 10: Puducherry to Mahabalipuram, 05.01 What the itinerary says - After breakfast, drive to Mahabalipuram. The city is famous thanks to its seven pagodas. On the local waterfront there is a group of ancients from the 7th century, carved in rock caves and monolithic sanctuaries representing...

Yeah. We could not care less and have found the displays more amusing than anything else. We are not Christmas people.

and then it was off on our 'tour'. We should have looked at this as we were not the slightest bit interested in walking into an ashram. How odd. All of these people trying to find their inner selves and a bunch of tourists wandering quietly in. Just weird. Then to a very crowded temple where...

On the road to Puducherry Lots of rice being harvested and into Puducherry and the Bull Boutique Hotel. Great location in the first block of White Town. This place looks great in pictures and is actually ok in reality, but, as we were checking in I could see the room type booked by...

Day 9: Puducherry, 04.01 Itinerary Visit the capital of the former French colony, the Sri Aurobindo ashram and the temple of the god Ganesha where you can see not only various rituals and representations of the god Ganesha but also a live elephant who blesses the people visiting the temple...

and some more the full moon rising made it even more special they think this is Marco Polo truly an amazing place even for avowed aetheists like we are, it was very spritually moving back to the noisiest hotel in the known universe for dinner there's a bus station diagonally across...