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Someone asked me this the other day after i mentioned my plans to travel in India. I have never thought abut this topic as it doesn't apply to me. Luckily the days when a male-female pair would have to produce a marriage certificate to share a room are long gone, though it can still be hard to...

This is an interesting topic. Amelia, did you know the the bitter gourd City Lites mentions is the Okinawan goya - another love-hate food in Japan.

jnorth, I love that you have that level of detailed information about so many airport lounges. Do you keep it all on a spreadsheet to make finding what you want to know easily?

New Delhi International has amazing sleeping pods. They re around 12 USD an hour, and look spacious, with a proper bed, TV and power sockets for charging your electricals. I don't know if they have a bathroom though,so that could be a drawback. I think they are meant to be used for a couple of...

I love it when people include key information, like here about the need to take your own food. I would be more likely to go if there were definite reports of hauntings!! Perhaps those stories were spread to keep people away at night and avoid accidents? Or the opposite - to attract people like me?

I love, love, love Indian food, but I know eating whatever I want for weeks on end will make me gain weight. I have no idea which dishes are cooked with ghee and which are lower in calories, so am hoping for some advice. I know 'low calorie' finds may be a tall order, so will be happy with...

You already got some great advice and tips, and that nice list of basic phrases above. The only thing I can add is that you may find it easier if you hear the phrases.spoken aloud. I am sure there are free or cheap low cost Internet language learning sites where you can listen to the...

This is a fabulous thing to do, and something I looked at awhile back. From memory I can answer question 3 - yes, you can stay on them. Question 4 is more difficult to answer as it depends on the season, if you want air conditioning in the bedroom, and how big a boat you hire. I am not sure if...

I have only ever had a yogurt type dessert in an Indian restaurant, but I would love to try some different things. I rarely see a large dessert menu in any Indian eating places here, so honestly assumed that sweet things were not terribly popular. Rice pudding sounds good if you have not had...

Thanks both for the replies. That is a really cheap price tag LMackey, even double that would be amazing. Hi Gerbera. Zika is scary, though I am more worried about the annoying reaction I have to bites than to any serious disease.

Mosquito repellent is quite expensive where I live so I an thinking of just taking what I need and then buying more once in country. I read somewhere that Odomos is a brand available in India. Does anyone know how much a decent sized bottle would cost?

I think Western Union have just changed their rules about cash transfers, at least my friend just told me she had trouble collecting money that way while in Egypt recently, so I would avoid that route. I think Amelia's suggestion of using PayPal is great, and if either of you don't have an...

I had a look online just now and it struck me that the best deals are for qualified teachers (which makes sense), but I also saw some posts for TEFL teachers with a credible teaching certificate, and those offered decent salaries and a free apartment. Maybe a better way to approach this is to...

Hungry

Goa seems to me to be a place where the usual cultural rules are not even thought about. The videos kicking around the Internet sound creepy though. In some countries videoing people without permission is illegal, never mind posting the evidence online.