As far as tuk tuk pimping goes, I don't know what it is with us and colourblind painters but we seem to know how to pick 'em. Some of you might recall our horror when we moved in to our newly refurbished flat in Singapore and it was painted entirely in lavender...or “bright white” depending on your level of colour blindness. Well our Ferrari auto-rickshaw suffered a similar fate. In this case the painter's interpretation of red was rusty orange. Two trips to the paint shop and several sweaty hours later it's looking much closer to the mean machine we had in mind. We took it for a test drive the other day and after 5 minutes Lionel was already swearing in French. Not a good start. However, I'm pleased to report that after a mere few hours of driving around the backstreets of Kochi, you would be hard-pressed to tell him apart from any other local rickshaw driver: driving on whichever side of the road happens to be available, honking his horn every other second, racing past pedestrians with an inch to spare between them. Who'd have thought a rickshaw could be so much fun! This is going to be one hell of journey!