Across Tamil Nadu
Unable to get seats on a train from Kanyakumari, we had to retrace the 16 miles back along the coast to Nagercoil to get a train to Madurai, an undemanding More… →
Category Archives: India
Land’s End
We left Kovalam on 9th January, making the short journey down to Kanyakumari on an early morning train. After a while the countryside changed from the typical Keralan scene of More… →
New Year in Kovalam
We stayed in Kovalam for New Year. We knew from a visit in 2003 what was likely to happen and sure enough we saw the signs of impending mayhem. Tall More… →
Christmas Spirits
Christmas in Kovalam: Wednesday 25th December 2013 It’s been an unusual Christmas Day, so far. I wouldn’t normally get up at 06:30, much less go for a 2 hour walk More… →
Varkala
We’d been to Varkala before, about 8 years ago. That time we stayed in some circular huts with leaky roofs on the hillside, down at the end of the valley More… →
Cochin – Queen of the Arabian Sea
We probably got off at the wrong station. Ernakulam has two stations and our train was supposed to go to the southern one – but it stopped at the northern More… →
By Kannur beach
The owner of the Sea Shell resort had arranged for a tuk tuk driver to meet us at the railway station – it’s a tight squeeze in a tuk tuk More… →
On the rails
Saturday 7th December Unfortunately the train pulled into platform 3 at Kannur which meant trudging up a steep flight of stairs to the bridge – hard work with our backpacks More… →
On to Udupi
We said goodbye to Patnem early on Friday morning as we took a taxi to Margao at 5:30 to catch our 7:10 train. We could have had longer lie in More… →
The Hotel Business
I always find it interesting to read TripAdvisor reviews of places we’ve stayed, especially the negative ones. People do complain about the strangest things. The main gripe of one unhappy More… →