We had arranged last night with Glenn and Claire that we would check out of our hotel at 11.00am and bring our bags to their hotel for the day. We do not need to be at the airport until 7pm ish so Glenn and Claire said we could store our bags at theirs and get showers there before going to the airport. We had a walk around some of the backstreets with shops on them, went for a drink in a restaurant then went to the beach for a couple of hours. James and Glenn wen...

We had arranged last night with Glenn and Claire to meet them at the beach this morning. We had our breakfast as usual at the hotel, this morning it was a sort of very clovey, watery bread sauce, served with rice dumplings. It really wasn't either if our favourite breakfast, the last mouthfuls were quite difficult to swallow. As soon as we'd finished breakfast we got our bag together for the beach. When we got there, Glenn and Claire were already there and had go...

We had potato curry with dosa's (pancakes) for breakfast this morning. I wasn't looking forward to having a real curry for breakfast but it really wasn't so bad. Today is the day that our friends Glenn and Claire will get to Kovalam. They are getting a car at 9.00am and hoping to reach us by midday ish. After we'd had breakfast it was around 10.30am as we'd been talking to some of the other guests here. So we decided to get our bag ready and have a day at the bea...

This morning we got up to breakfast to have a bowl of mung beans, then a plate of rolled wheat and coconut and a poppadom. You had to break the roll of wheat and coconut, put your mung beans on top then break the poppadom over the top. It was quite nice actually, a little dry though. After breakfast we thought we'd do a little planning for Vietnam as it's really not that far away now. After this we decided to have a walk to a beach which was further away. It was ...

We started today by having the traditional keralan breakfast that we have included at our hotel. It was two coconut pancakes and then bananas in hot milk. James got an extra portion of bananas, even though I'm trying more and more new things. Banana is one thing I am absolutely not eating! The pancakes were delicious though and James really enjoyed the bananas. After this we went down to the beach for the day. We had forgotten it was Sunday which is a locals at t...