Our last stop before returning to Cochin at the end of our two-month trip around southern India was Alleppey, 'Venice of the East', or at least I thought it was! As is our wont, I went on...
Kollam – the southern approach to Kerala’s backwaters
Our reason for including Kollam in our itinerary was so that we could travel from there by ferry to our next stop, Alleppey. In the event, we had missed the last boat of the season by a...
A few days on the beach in Kovalam
When we were in Madurai preparing to leave for our Workaway project in the hills near Kodaikanal, we took the time to provisionally plan the days we would have left in...
Kathakali performance, Fort Cochin
Over the years as we’ve travelled around, especially in south-east Asia, we’ve been to many ‘cultural shows’. These performances of traditional local music and dance have often been...
A day out with Joseph in Cochin, Kerala
On our first full day in India, we met up with a friend who we had last seen a year before in Ethiopia. By coincidence, she was in Cochin at the halfway point of her overland trip through...
Cochin, Kerala – a gentle introduction to India
Before we embarked on this trip, everyone told us that Cochin, in the state of Kerala in southern India, would be the perfect gentle introduction to the sub-continent. And so it proved to be! ...
