Well people, what to say.....?I've been incredibly idle over the past nine days in a place called varkala on kerela's western coast. The place is so easy to be in and yet has the devious ability to swallow you when you least expect it. My original plan had been to stay for three or four days just to get my head together but after nine days i feel it's actually time to move on..... Life here may be a little less eventfull than on the road but it certainly is pleas...

Begrudgingly left Sri Lanka yesterday. I've spent the last week or so hanging out with a local fisherman and his family in a small fishing village on the south coast. this place was great, no hotels, no tourists, proper rural. The people extended such hospitality towards me it was sometimes difficult to accept. I was given a place to stay, fed fresh (really fresh) fish to the point of destruction and entertained with large volumes of coconut arrak (the local tipp...