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Today, awoken by the dawn chorus, music from the temple, cockerels, the gentle sound of houseboats leaving their moorings all tempered by various boat staff and locals bathing in the river and hocking their guts up........ This accompanied our breakfast of rice cakes filled with coconut and cardamom accompanied by banana in warm milk with sugar and cumin. With this gentle process of achieving consciousness we were then informed that we would arrive at the dock in 30 ...
Highlights of Kochi
So welcome to the Kerala Backwaters - a vast network of rivers, estuaries, lakes and canals. Features some stunning scenery, dotted with tiny island villages - many accessible only by cannoe.
Have seen people making rope ("coir") from coconut fibres, and tapping coconut flowers to produce a sweet, cloudy brew... "toddy" they call it - very palatable, great ...
Jamie becomes Madhur Jaffrey
... good job!
The last day is spent shopping...Jamie's most hated past time! Maria gives us the name of a great local shop that will sell us the Keralan style of cooking pots. We buy several, plus a chapati pan and rice cooker all for 35 pounds that would cost hundreds in the UK. Then the next most important thing of my mum's birthday present. Eventually we get both packaged up in sewn cotton packages and melted red wax seal and post them, hoping one day they will arrive in the ...
Boating in the Backwaters
... calcium carbonate to calcium hydroxide appeared in front of our eyes as we watched the powder appear as the broken shells increased in temperature when mixed with water.
The calcium was then sent to factories and sold on behalf of cooperative for; calcium tablets and coatings, whitewashing buildings, paper bleaching and water purification. As we left the lime factory the rain was really starting to come down heavily and ...
Air India does it again!
... Kochi was scheduled only for 5 PM.
Apart from the consumption of an overpriced Biryani for lunch, the time until boarding was uneventful. It was only at the time of boarding that the real drama began! At the very last minute, Air India Express decided to announce that the flight would depart late on account of what they then called a 'technical snag'. Upon further inquiry, we found out that there was ...
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