Leaving India…..ahhhh……with such a heavy heart.Since I last checked in – getting off the train and arriving here in the quite far south, life has become very routine in the nicest way imaginable. I have developed a little community here in Fort Cochin and the days just seem to whiz by. Here at the Tag und Nacht Guesthouse, people come and go and I don't know where the time has gone but it is soon that I will say goodbye to India and f...

The long and winding track….16 hours. Palolem to Cochin.I reluctantly packed up my little beach shack after showing it to two somewhat crazy Canadian women who were looking for a place to stay. They were Oscar and Felix visit India – had met in Delhi and teamed up for God knows why. The one woman from Vancouver, maybe 50 years old, was terrified of everything: Indian people, food, buses, trains, insects….What the Hell are you doing in India, ...

Palolem/Patnem – It is all soooo lovely.Never did find Bonkers. Found the Sea View Coco Beach Huts run by a group of nice sisters (not the nun kind even though this is seriously Catholic territory) and their kids. I am living in a stilted plywood hut with private bathroom, right on one of the loveliest quiet beaches in the world with amazing variety of surf conditions throughout the day. The water is bathtub warm, the waves gentle in the morning and then ...

I came for a couple of days and then…..ahhh just couldn't seem to leave. That pretty much sums up my time here in Palolem. Left Agra, got to Delhi with Carrie – we decided to hire a car for the journey as we thought we were going to have some running around to do – attempting to find Paul in a City of 35 million – I had left my good beach books in Delhi thinking I would see them again when we hooked up at his place in the north, mayb...