We managed to wake up at 5am and get off at the right stop (they aren't announced on the trains) and we then got the ferry over to Fort Cochin. The only guesthouse that was open at half six out of the 50 or so that we passed was the one that we wanted to stay in...quite good luck. The owner didn't have a room until about 11am but he gave us a bed in his house to catch up on sleep until we could check in. Very nice of him.
We spent our time here wandering about looking at the various churches and cathedral and also at the chinese fishing nets. Enormous wooden contraptions used to suspend the nets they lower into the water and then raise up full of fish (or not as the case may be).
We have also changed our plans for some of the rest of the trip - Kerry gave us a useful suggestion of getting the engagement ring in Dubai so we cancelled the other flights we had and will now stop there for a few days on the way back. In the meantime we've loads more places to see here so we had better get cracking.
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Hi Nicola and Ben, Congratulations on your engaement!!!!!!! How romantic, its lovely !!
Im going to Kerala for three weeks in Dec to be the guest of a Swamiji I met in edinburgh last year called Swamiji Sandeep Chitainya who runs a school called the School of Bhagavad Gita. I cant wait but it wont be as far traveeled in India as yours though Im hoping to squeeze in a visit to the Taj Mahal. Im staying in Cochin as well. Keep having fun and enjoy it all! Diane Cunningham
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