Preview of M-and-c's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Kumily, India Entry Title: "Kumily" Entry: "Friday 24th February 2006 Kottayam and Kumily Back to the train station and heading inland (for a change) and north to a place called Kottayam. The train journey took 4 and a half hours. We passed the time talking to some young male law students. One of them was hoping to follow his brother to Newcastle, England to study. We could only think of the culture shock his brother would have had when he arrived in England for the first time, then getting used to the weather and then there is the Gordie language to contend with! Nothing much happened is Kottayam in our only night there only to say that we had checked into a hotel on arrival in the afternoon where we dumped the bags and went out to explore town. After doing Internet and MSN with the mummies we went and had a lovely meal in a rather swanky hotel restaurant. On leaving and noticing how hot it was still at 10.30pm, we enquired how much it was to stay one night. A/C double was a snip at 13 pounds. We duly returned to our original hotel room to find that it had turned into a sauna. It was boiling! We immediately donned our backpacks and left for the swanky A/C hotel. We didn't bother with a refund for we only paid about 4 fine English pounds and it was worth it for the laugh we had as we walked <b>...</b>