Havelock Island

Check out time from the hotels in Port Blair are around 8am which is a shock to the system as we thought that 10am was bad! We sleepily made our way to the Ferry station.  There were a few Indian people there and Czech couple who were making their way back to Havelock. We waited until a ticket man came along to buy our tickets.  Everyone just crowded around him.  You have to be very rude to buy a ticket in India.  You must stand your ground even when someone is practically standing on top of you because if you yield you'll never get anywhere.  So we too shoved our money in the poor ticket mans face until he took it.  The Czech couple also found the queueing system tough so we didn't push in front of them.  I really miss politeness as I know it.  

Port Blair

I have been looking forward to The Andaman Islands for a while.  From what I hear and read we should be in for some beautiful scenery and beaches with crystal blue clear waters.  I was hoping for that in Goa but it didn't quite deliver on that.  We arrived in the airport in Port Blair and filled  out our entry slips and got our permits and off we went.

Chennai

We arrived late last night and it is difficult to get the feel of places sometimes I find when you arrive late.  We pre-paid taxi it to our dive of a hotel.  Well I'm sure we'll see worse but this is our worst looking and I think smelling one so far.  It is right next to a busy road so all I can hear are cars beeping constantly.  We were on a train from 9am until after 11pm to get here so any bed would have done last night.

 Home sweet home.

Alleppey/Alappuzha

We have left Green Palms and arrived in Alleppey to another homestay run by a guy called Matthew who has an almost insane nervous laugh.  He mostly speaks to Andy and laughs after everything he says even if it isn't remotely amusing.  I thought the more we spoke the less this would happen but that didn't happen.  He's very nice though and very helpful.