Dispatches from Varkala, India
Arrived by Bus on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at 2:15pm local time
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
And introducing... Mister Raisin!
Spidey, our little spider puppet, is going to have to share mascot duties from now on. Look who we found on the beach! He's a baby sea turtle! He's been completely mummified by the salt water. Isn't he adorable? I named him Mister Raisin.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Varkala; Inappropriate dress at the Fish Market; Festival with elephants
There was only day that was an exception to the Varkala routine of swimming and sun. We'd found one person from couchsurfing.com in Varkala and written to him before we arrived. Sebastien met up with us on the helipad and brought us to his house for breakfast. He's not from…
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Trivandrum to Varkala; Expensive food and cheap bed; Beautiful beach and ugly tourists; Surreptitious alcohol; In which we make a drastic change of plans
We hadn't heard a lot about Varkala. We knew there were cliffs and a beach, though, and that was good enough for us. South Africa had spoiled us for beaches and we were both missing the sand and the ocean. There's a beach place called Kovalam that's very close to…
