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Firmly on the backpacker trail, Fort Cochin is an island (i think) which has had very little development on it for many years and is a great place to wander, especially as a lot of the old buildings have retained their charm whilst housing some great shops. Lots of yummy backpackery type food too and cereal for breakfast which is great after too many curries for breakfast. It's an area known for its massive line of chinese fishing nets which are still used, though infrequently today and which require 4 men to haul up the load. They've also probably got a good name for tourists as they are situated in the perfect spot to watch the sun go down, which we did for both our evenings here. As the sun goes down, the floodlights come on the cricket pitch in the middle of the town where we watched a couple of overs from two tinpot teams. Steve was itching to get out there and show them how it's done, but did restrain himself and just watch.
There's a little area called Jew Town which other than the massively over-priced shops with pushy pushy shopkeepers is great to walk through as it smells of spice and has rows of little shops selling their speciality spice or herb.
Other tourists we chatted to were a little surprised that we weren't staying in Fort Cochin but having arrived hot and sweaty we couldn't bear to get on a ferry to that area of the city so settled in an ok place in the commercial centre. Cheap as chips and also gave us the bonus of having a 5 rupee journey to and from Fort Cochin itself which was a perfectly pleasant way to end our evenings here.
The chat has also picked up from people we've met along the way:
what country?
what is your name? (only 1 out of 10 of these are followed up with a further question, most just give a nod and walk off - maybe people just go around collecting names and putting them in notebooks for some kind of competition at the end of the year)
is he your husband?
where is your baby?
how many babies do you have?
why don't you have any babies?
how many coats do you have?
how many coats does your husband have?
and demands...
one photo...
one coin...
one pen....
The coats questions are at least interesting but only being asked about our names, marital status and childlessness is becoming a little dry
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