17.10.2004

India

Well here we sit in Malaysia's largest internet cafe killing time. A couple of hundred wood-panelled booths with individual faux-leather couches, flat-screen monitors, phones for food service. I can't see any kids falling asleep on their keyboards like usual though - I put it down to the industrial-strength air-con pumping through the place.

Trepidation? - no, adventure - is a word that comes to mind as we're browsing through forums and reading up on India travel stories. Boy are there some stories. We fly in to Chennai (aka Madras) in the south tomorrow morning and we were debating rushing up to the province of Sikkim in the north to have a Himalayan birthday for Danielle. Only problem is the train ride to Kolkata is 27 hours. and from there it is still another 18 hours of overland travel!

So the consensus is there's no need to rush. Chennai is the southern capital of India, and with a population of some 6.7 million there'll surely be something to do.