Category: Travel

• Thursday Doors: Fort Kochi 2

  

  As promised, I’m back again with my second lot of doors from Fort Kochi, an island in Kerala (a state in the South of India) which was gifted to the Portuguese by the King of Kochi in 1503 after the Portuguese forces helped him fight the Samoothri, the monarch of Calicut (another district in Kerala). […]

  Smitha V

  July 15, 2022

  Photography, Travel

  #fortkochi, #history, #kerala, #thursdaydoors

• Thursday Doors: Fort Kochi (Part 1)

  

  Yayy! I’m happy to be taking part in Thursday Doors again, after what seems like ages. The thing is, it isn’t easy to take pictures of apartment doors in Mumbai – I don’t want to be answering questions on why and what I am doing. So, I only manage to participate in ‘Thursday Doors’ every […]

  Smitha V

  July 8, 2022

  Photography, Travel

  #beuatifulindia, #doors, #experiences, #fortkochi, #kerala, #photographs, #thursdaydoors, #travel

• Kerala Diaries: Travel- In and around the ‘Queen of the Arabian Sea’

  

  Fort Kochi is called the ‘Queen of the Arabian Sea’. It gets its name from Fort Manuel of Cochin, the first European fort on Indian soil controlled by the Portuguese. I’d been to Fort Kochi in 1995, a long time ago, with my parents. I remember we had lunch there- a fresh catch of fish […]

  Smitha V

  July 7, 2022

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #beautifulindia, #familyholiday, #food, #fortkochi, #fun, #HotelTrident, #kerala, #keraladiaries, #life, #loveoftravel, #people, #travelogue, #travelwithkids

• Kerala Diaries 2: Travel From Thrissur to Cochin

  

  After spending six days in my husband’s parents’ home which is in a village near Thrissur district, we left for Cochin which is two hours away. I left with a heavy heart. The below lines by Robert Frost came to my mind as I said goodbye. The woods are lovely, dark and deepBut I have […]

  Smitha V

  July 4, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #beautifulindia, #Cochin, #explore, #family, #familyholidays, #India, #keraladiaries, #life, #love, #monsoons, #nature, #people, #SouthIndia, #travelogue, #truth

• We are connected

  

  The train is chugging along. We’ve booked seats in the AC compartment- the windows are sealed, so, you can’t open them. Since it is the monsoon (rainy) season, it’s cold in the compartment with the AC on. So, I step out with my husband to take a break from the AC and I stand in […]

  Smitha V

  June 29, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #culture, #journey, #life, #love, #nature, #people, #poem, #relationship, #SoCs, #statesofindia, #train, #truth, #unityindiversity, #weareone