Cable? What Cable?

It's amazing to think that a cable under the Mediterranean sea can cause so much trouble. And even more amazing that for some reason we can still access Gmail and Google even when all other access seems to be non-existent. No matter, it means I can still blog a little and keep people up to date on our travels.

This is our last day in Varkala. We will miss our sit-out, although Geordie says my swinging in the hammock all day is making him queasy. Well, if he insists on using both chairs to sit and lounge only leaving me the hammock, so be it. We have enjoyed ourselves, going on walks along the red brick path, watching the birds swoop over, having a nice bowl of salad and a plate of roasted potatoes, going for the evening walk up the steps past all the restaurants to choose the one where we will sit and wait and wait and wait until our food is finally delivered. And maybe have a beer or two sometimes served in a teapot and always the bottle hidden behind the table leg so that the police going by won't know we are having a beer. How a frosty glass on the table can be confused with anything other than a beer is beside the point it seems. There is some reason, I'm sure, why we cannot show we are actually having a beer, even though the restaurants all have drinks menus and one of them even offers a happy hour.

We head to Kochi, which is also known as Cochin, tomorrow morning by train. The trip takes about five hours so we will have to stock up on some tasty treats for the trip - cookies, potato chips, the usual... Perhaps I should look for some of the really tasty oranges we have found in India and some of the beautiful sweet bananas we have also enjoyed.

There's only a month left in our trip, and some of you have figured out that we are just a little homesick. Sometimes even the idea of ice and snow sounds positively lovely, although 35 degrees celsius here compared to - 35 celsius in Calgary is a little positive encouragement to stay where we are. And I'm sure when we get home the rain of the lower Mainland will soon have us pining for sunshine.