Just a quickie--Still on Ko PhaNgan, Had a great dive today courtesy of Fredi, Daniel and Heike at Haad Yao Divers at the SailRock mid way between Ko Pha Ngan and Ko Tao. Tonight is the Full Moon party, so we'll see how I survive! The other news is that the full set from Malaysia is up, and you can re-read it (in the unlikely event that you read it already!) with active links in the previous

So I'm now in Thailand, the blur of Malaysia having passed me by. I started in the town of Melaka, where as I mentioned, cadging a lift home off two Russian gymnastics coaches (rhythmic, not artistic, please) turned into an all night drinking session. As the beers flowed Vera (the rope specialist) kept on explaining to me in more and more slurred broken English that she was upset that everyone

OK so all the photos from India are finally up and in the text. So you can all go back and re-read the blogs to now and click on the multitudionous links to see what I saw (or more or less). If you are too lazy to do that, you can instead click on anyone of these
Getting there and Delhi
Jaipur
Jaisalmer
Camel Safari in Thar desert
Jodphur
Tiger hunting in Sariska
Agra, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort,

Civilization regained and soon to be lost.

So apart from sitting in the luxury of Eliot Fisk's amazing apartment --this is the view and watching a few DVDs, I did bugger all in Honkers. I did take a tram all the way to the pool, but it was closed. It was a similar story in Singapore, where apart from an intellectual lunch with Mun-Kew Leung's colleagues at the Lab for information science--one of

Sept 29--All India is pretty rough but Agra really tries your patience. There are endless attempts to sell you chess sets, necklaces, anything made of marble, and anything else that moves. By now I had lost patience with rip-off rickshaw drivers, and aggressive hawkers, and I managed to really lose my temper a few times. It didn't help, but I felt better!

The big things to see are the Taj Mahal

So we awoke after a remarkably good nights sleep in Jodphur, which is halfway back towards Jaipur. Jodphur has a HUGE fort in the center and alot of blue-washed houses around it. After minimal, in fact (remarkably for India) no, haggling, we got a guide to show us around the fort, which is itself a stiff 15 minute uphill walk from the town. He was happy to tell us that he owned 7 racing camels