Yep that’s right, Storm and I have been stricken with Delhi Belly. It was only a mild case of fever and diarrhea – well I guess it depends how you define mild – but it did necessitate a trip to the local hospital to procure some medications. As Storm was too unwell to perform the task, it fell on to my unsteady shoulders to trek by rickshaw across the dusty and melodramatic lengths of the bustling streets of Allepey, in draining heat and raining humidity..ok…ok enough whining… to get 2 lots of Norfloxacin for our restive collective bellies.

And although we lost a day to the pitch of fever and grating angle grinder, we are now happy and medicated on the shores of the Arabian sea once more. Storm’s face as we drifted along the backwater canals yesterday, however, was something to catalog for when people challenge the intensity of our Indian trip in years to come. “Yeah man….we did it rough”…

So three more days and then it’s back to Oz. Having recently completed Shantaram we are both ready for the sights and sites of Bombay before cramming in some shopping with the last of our rupees and jetting home…

James