The terror of travel courtesy of YouTube

Since for the last leg of my India trip I am going to going solo I have been watching a lot of videos with tips on solo travelling. Generally I am in favour of research but in this case I beginning to think that ignorance is bliss. 

The videos are making me anxious. Touts are everywhere. All beggars work for crime syndicates. Drinks are spiked.  Local food kills. Bottled water is not safe (bottle tampering is a given). Taxi drivers deceive. Monkey thieves are everywhere. Apparently, the world is out to get me. 

What a dismal view of the world. Call me Pollyanna but I think I'm going to forget everything I watched and put my trust in the kindness of strangers. After all, you'll only be proven right if you go in expecting the worst. 

It's all puppy dogs and rainbows from here on end, except for monkeys. I nearly lost my glasses to a gang of them in Bali and since then I don't believe anything the little thieving bastards are selling. See if you get another banana out of me!

Now back to regularly scheduled programming.