Sick As A Dog

All right who had their money on 29 days? In that case cash in, because that's how long it took me to get sick in India. I've had some minor hiccups prior to this but have now landed the full scale "Delhi Belly." I've been more or less knocked out with 39.5 degree fever for a few days now, going up and down all the time, crushing headache, pain in all limbs and also irregular visits to the very nice Indian lavatories (Nurse Niki what do these symptoms indicate?). I picked it up at some point during my "Rehab" in Hampi but still decided to make the 10 hour bus-journey (no bicycles yet) down to the coast again, this time to the small town of Gokarna. The bus-ride was not the most pleasant but not at all as bad as I had expected it to be. We were scammed at every possible point though as we were forced to buy additional trips to our allready fully paid ticket, but eventually arrived on "Om Beach" at around 5 o clock in the morning. As all guesthouses were closed when we arrived we decided to catch a few hours sleep on the beach. This seemed like a great idea until we woke up surrounded by cows who got a bit aggressive when they realised we had nothing to offer them apart from a few bananas, however things worked out fine and we are now staying at a really nice guesthouse right by the beach. I feel better now and hopefully it will stay that way but you never know with India, I'll write more when I can give a more detailed report on Gokarna.