India 07.01.2010 Kerela - part 2

India 8.1.2010 Kerela

Dinner was magnificent. Sadly lunch was also, so we were really too full to eat anything much. Right now I could eat it all - but last night we were popping food on our plate and moving them around so it looked like we'd eaten something. The sort of thing a kid does to make it look like they have tried to eat their veggies.

There was quite a fan fare as they had remembered to include a bottle of wine with our meal. It was "Port Wine"

so obviously we didn't drink it with dinner. A sip of it after dinner told us that perhaps it was a wine to be drunk with dinner, it was a wine not to drunk at all without the fear of blindness. We used the DVD player to watch one of the movies I bought way back in Jodhpur. The one set in 2050 in Bombay was tried. The movie took the entire of one DVD to just get them to the future, by the time we got to the 2nd DVD we were exhausted and it was time for bed.

There is one small sheet and one small blanket, let the battle commence!

We slept in, and by the time we got up and re-packed (I had to empty my bags to find the DVDs) and stepped out, we only had 30 minutes left till they got us back to the the house boat docks. It was all a little too fast. We were still having breakfast when we pulled in.

Our plan had been to just lark about "in town". It was largely too darn hot at 9ish when we got out of the boat - so we decided to try for a cheap hotel for the day. We ended up at a place that was so "no frills" it should probably just make the jump over to being a brothel, or asylum, or something.

Just having a base of operations is always better. We watched a Kevin Cline movie while we repacked all our stuff and tried to ignore the smells and stains on the walls.

We ventured out into Kerela. It's not a tourist town, so we couldn't find a coffee shop or anywhere to hang out. So we asked Mr Rickshaw driver to take us down to the beach. This is where the resorts are, but it,s a quiet kind of place. Picking one at random, we climbed the stairs and and sat in a deserted cafe.

The beaches were surprisingly big, with very white sands. It's all strangely empty though. It is the heat of the day, so maybe it livelies up at night.

We sit have 5:15 Hours to kill, best drink our coffee slowly as there will only be so much fun to be had at the train station. At least there are chips. mmmmm chips.