Kannur
Trip Start
Sep 05, 2008
1
9
68
Trip End
Ongoing
Kannur,
Kerala,
India
Monday, September 15, 2008
A/C we booked, and A/C we bloody well got. It's freezing! The Indian folk on the train, which is full up, don't seem to mind - even the children are sitting happily in their T-shirts. I have to hold my nose to warm it up, my hands are starting to go purple! I'll be lucky to sleep on this; it's unpleasant just sitting still.
Fortunately it does warm up for the last 90 minutes or so of the trip, and I manage to catch some Zs. Catherine tells me afterwards that as I slept a small group of Indian children collected and stared silently at me for some time.
After our arrival at Kannur we take a Rickshaw about 20 minutes out of town to a tiny village, then turn off down a dirt track and head down there for five minutes. Just as we're beginning to wonder if the driver is planning on taking us to a secluded area to kill us and dump our bodies, we arrive at the guest house we've booked. It's in the middle of nowhere.
It's very pleasant here, but there's not a great deal to do, so we walked into the village. We passed four or five houses on this walk; just after each house was passed you'd hear the noise of excited children running out of the house; "Hello! Hello! Hello!" they'd shout, even the really young (3-4 year old) kids (presumable copying their older siblings). They all wanted to practice their English, and were so happy that we'd chat to them. Then, when we go to leave they all start shouting "Photo, photo, photo!"; we'd seen children in some of the cities asking for money to have their photo taken, and even adults inviting us to photograph their children for cash, which we weren't big fans of. But these kids just wanted us to take their photos so we could then show them the pictures on the screen of the camera! They were such good fun.
