keralan sound system
we are in a very hot town called 'trivandrum' on the west coast in southern kerala. probably one of the hottest places we've been and will be at as theres no wind, being inland. so its very sweaty and dusty!
it feels like we are travelling again, but tommorrow we head on a train to a town which sounds a bit more relaxing than here, 'karvalla' or something like that.. used to be a hippy town 30 years ago so we should fit right in, me with my guru beard and fi with her dreads... only kidding! although we are losing weight rapidly!!
guess what we met a couple from Twyford, Berkshire at the end of the road in a mountain top hotel last night. i produced a postcard of wargrave to show where i lived and they nearly fell off their chairs!
yesterday we travelled into kerala from tamil nadu by train, later by bus up to the mountains. so from the end of the line in the south to the end of the road in a hill station in a day. quite something, and not planned either - we flipped a coin at the train station to decide what we did..
there are 6 classes of rail travel in india, we travelled on the most quietest section yesterday from the southern cape. we had a whole carriage to ourselves, something which the everday indian would not believe!
gotta go now and practice some keralan - 'malayalam' dialect. new province, new language!
jim
it feels like we are travelling again, but tommorrow we head on a train to a town which sounds a bit more relaxing than here, 'karvalla' or something like that.. used to be a hippy town 30 years ago so we should fit right in, me with my guru beard and fi with her dreads... only kidding! although we are losing weight rapidly!!
guess what we met a couple from Twyford, Berkshire at the end of the road in a mountain top hotel last night. i produced a postcard of wargrave to show where i lived and they nearly fell off their chairs!
yesterday we travelled into kerala from tamil nadu by train, later by bus up to the mountains. so from the end of the line in the south to the end of the road in a hill station in a day. quite something, and not planned either - we flipped a coin at the train station to decide what we did..
there are 6 classes of rail travel in india, we travelled on the most quietest section yesterday from the southern cape. we had a whole carriage to ourselves, something which the everday indian would not believe!
gotta go now and practice some keralan - 'malayalam' dialect. new province, new language!
jim
posted by Fi and Jim @ 2:14 pm
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