Tag: #keraladiaries
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Kerala diaries 1: The neighbourhood
It’s four days since I wrote my last post. I’m in Kerala with my husband’s family. We took a train from Mangalore to Kerala- our first train journey in 6 years. After 7 hours of chugging past stretches of paddy fields, meandering rivers, railway tracks, colourful homes, spotted cows, and people, we finally arrived here […]