We were moving again today, we had to check out at 10.30 from Anoob's place. We had breakfast, packed our bags then sorted with Anoob that we were definitely booked in at the beginning of January. We gave him the deposit and we asked him some advice on where he thought we might get something similar to an English Christmas dinner, he had a couple of suggestions but said any of the big hotels will be doing something, so we said we'd go around and ask. We left our ...

We actually managed to make it to breakfast this morning, all caught up on our sleep! It's a home stay where we are so we get a room just like a hotel room with ensuite bathroom but its just a room in this guy's house. He is called Anoob and he's really nice, and actually very funny. I'm not sure how many rooms he has in total, there were some on the first floor which you got to by a stair case on the outside, and then there was our room and Anoob's room downstai...

Our train got into Cochin at 1.45am, when we packed our things most other people were still sleeping and the carriage was really dark but we managed to get off at the right stop! When we got off the train the station was extremely busy with Indian men sleeping on the floor! There were hundreds of them laid out sleeping. We found our way out and to a rickshaw to take us to Fortcochin to our hotel, it was quite a journey but with it being early hours of the morning...

We got up early this morning so that we could get off to the post office, we got a rickshaw there. It was a larger rickshaw with no door on one side! After getting to the post office we were told that our parcel would be better wrapped in cloth in case it came open and we had customs forms to fill in. We didn't end up sending the parcel, we will sort it in Cochin where we'll have more time to. We did get some postcards sent though. We then got a rickshaw to the t...

We got up fairly early this morning as there is quite a lot to do before we catch the train tomorrow. We are going to get up early in the morning and get to margoa to the post office and be well in time for our train, so want everything to be organised today. We had breakfast then wrapped the parcel up (fingers crossed it makes it back to the UK in one piece) started organising our bags etc. After a few hours we decided to go for a swim, whilst drying out then we...