on holiday with beautiful gracie in Kerela

Kerela is so green, I have never seen so many coconut palm trees
It's very fragrant with spices, the curries are delicious
there's heaps of colour everywhere, in the clothes, the houses, the boats, the flowers
and it's a very gentle, easy place !
loving the Ayurvedic treatments
and have a huge smile everytime someone greets me with a head wobble !

Kovalam

colourful houses, jovial fisherman, welcoming locals

life on the backwaters

going to school, fishing, washing, rice farming

tea plantation

we were at a home stay, lovely family, mumma said gracie and I were too thin and too pale so fed us so much delicious curry, she showed us around her spice garden and cooked all our meals and dad and his mates showed us around their rubber plantation, walked us to visit the family's elephant and cycled us through the tea plantations

Cochin

life on the water is very relaxed for the tourists watching the fishermen !
there are street sellers for the tourists
beautiful sunset by the Chinese fishing nets

Varkala

beautiful beach, the locals are carrying out their religious ceremonies or the daily fishing whilst the tourists are surfing, yogaing or posing

gentle, smiley happy people