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… →
Category Archives: Journey log
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… →
Life’s a Beach
Now that our days are not punctuated by visits to the dentist, we have fallen into a kind of routine. Up early, before 7:00am sometimes, throw on some clothes and More… →
Teeth, mainly
For the first time since last Thursday we are not going to the dentist today! Things moved quickly after Mr Vagabond had his tooth extracted. A follow up the next More… →