Preeth Beach Resort Varkala

... every visitor gets the most attention, haha. Nearly all shopowners want to get a sale and it is hard to keep the money together. In the restaurants and cafes all waiters are very courteous and go to great lengths to make one feel alright....and of course due to lack of visiting girls, every female gets some xtra attention...but it is not bothering, always friendly and nice.

I have divided my day and evening time between different nice cafes/restaurants, which all ...

mardi 28 avril Nous prenons un bus gouvernememtal par la force des choses... Pourquoi? nous avons rater le train. Ce fut une grande premiere pour nous, le train avait 5min d'avance! oui, oui, de l'avance. En temps ordinaire on l'attend plutot une bonne heure. Mais aujourd'hui c'est notre journee de bus, on pousse meme a prendre les petits bus de ville pour eviter de prendre les rikshows. on fini tout de meme par en prendre un car ...

... as it results in a lot of contact between skin and sand. Nice red welts on knees and elbows. Somehow the nose has not yet touched bottom but it can only be a matter of time. As the title suggests, we have finally bitten the bullet that we've been umm-ing and ahh-ing about for so long (er... apologies for horrible mixed metaphor). Basically, we've enrolled ourselves on a week long yoga ...

... sessions on the beach. I ate vegetable chow mein at the treehouse a few times and we also ate at Cafe Del Mar or Cafe Italiano. We met with Hilltop Helen a few more times for chats, dinners and beach time. Helen likes to wear blue and is like a bright and shiny peacock flashing her wonderful feathers all over the world. She leaves for London next week. We also met the lovely Julie Bloom. Later in the week Alina the hair cut Russian girl emailed me some photos and ...

... a duty, mine being pot scrubbing while Mish has managed to wangle an easy life in the coffee shop, cheeky monkey. You can't take Amsterdam out of the Dutch girl! I don't mind at all and am pleased I can play my part. As for the spiritual side of things, I have come to the conclusion that you need to spend a long time in a place such as this, truly immersing yourself in the activities, to come out the other side feeling ...

... die von seinem Bruder (auf die Frage nach den Namen der Hunde meinte er Doggy und Dogmy!?! Ja, genau!! Es war auch nicht festzustellen, wer mehr Angst vor dem anderen hatte, die Hunde oder der Inder!). Leider konnten wir ihn nicht davon abhalten sie spaeter zu entfuehren, aber wir glauben nicht, dass sie bei ihm geblieben sind. Ansonsten haben wir in den 3 Tagen in Varkala nicht viel gemacht, ausser ausruhen, schwimmen, Boogie-Boarden und abends auch ...

... looking forward to seeing the sunset over the two seas, but unluckily the only cloudy day until now was at the time of the sunset... But at least we got the reddish sky. After the few days in Kanyakumari i'm almost convinced that Indian children are the cutest ones in the world! Walking the narrow streets around the catholic church (!) we met a whole bunch of adorable kids that first always asked for a school pen, then for some sweets, and because we had neither, they were quite ...

... his home there) where Vijish lived and had chai. He spent much time pointing out different fauna (unbottled kingfishers, water snakes, cormorants and cranes featured prominently) and flora (ginger, pineapple plants and pepper plants). We also stopped to watch a kettu vallam being made and also had a coconut with an old riverside dweller and his wife. The top of the coconut is hacked off with a machete then a straw inserted. This was OK; the chap then chopped the thing in half and ...

... after we started off we were served an enormous meal of various delicious vegetable curries, each a Keralan speciality and containing coconut, curry leaves and cardamom as the main flavourings. An afternoon snack of fried battered bananas and sweet tea kept us on until dinner which was again enormous and beautifully prepared and included some simple fried fish. There was little to do except watch the world go by and read, but that was ...

... as you can eat and some papads, round fried crispies, which are really tasty and we were ready to set out on our mission. Since this is an enormous festival, we had been told that reservations should be made in advance so we were prepared for a scooping adventure in order to find a room. We got an autorickshaw to take us to Round South, which is the circular street around the temple in the center of town where the festival would be held. We didn't ...