Woke up reasonably early today after a hot (tho i'm not complaining, its SOOOOO nice and warm here!!!) night on hard bed. took the ferry over to vypeen island and then the local bus (rickshaw people wanted 250 rps, bus 2rps each) to cherai beach. possibly the funniest part of the day when den remarked on someone having very bad "asparagus veins"...he meant varicose veins. Haha! still makes me laugh. after walking in sun for like an hour and hardly anywhere to stay, had to end up forking out a fair bundle for a small resort crappy thing, but oh well! ou win some you loose some. had a lovely day spent on the beach sunbathing and a couple of swims. massive cross current and rips so was good exercise getting into the water. one serious dump and spent a lot of time later getting sand from places it should be....
discovering the food in the south is far different from the north, no (authentic anyway!) tandoori food which we both love and the attempt at masala today was something out of a packet! bit disappointing but looking forward to some fish. and missing my onion pakoras already! as the sun set we walked along the beach to he main pat where a lot of indian tourist had gathered to paddle. really nice to watch the families and the women enjoyed the paddling...there were a lot of shrieks and laughter so despite being all in full sarees they don't mind getting a bit wet and a couple even fell right over! a van load of nuns pulled up, young and old and they all had a great time some hitching their habit to their knees to have a really good wade. not much choice in terms of food, so had some bready snacks followed by a much wanted icecream, yum!
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