The Kanyakumari Express
Well we embarked on the Kanyakumari Express direction Kochi (Cochin). It was galaxys better than previous trains we have taken in terms of comfort. We even got clean sheets, a blanket, a pillow and a little towel and there was at least a meter between us and the ceiling. We shared a cabin with a really cute elderly Indian couple from Kerala who kept plying us with food every hour and enquiring in their colonial English about Elodie's "stomach upset" or if we where fasting that we where eating so little. They would giggle every so often when we talked. They where very nice. We spent the following 38 hours talking, playing cards, eating, sleeping, reading, sleeping some more, eating some more and I read the entirety of Indian Cosmo. Pretty Much the same only its Veejay 23 or Sinita 30 who write in with their comments and some of the fashion includes Saris. Also the "fashion police" segments involve Indian or Bollywood stars we have never heard of.
We arrived in the early hours of this morning at about 4.30 am at Ernakulam. Kochi is made up of a group of tiny islands linked together by ferries so we had to wait for a couple of hours for the first ferry from Ernakulam to Fort Cochin the island we wanted to stay on. We took the little boat for 4 rupees (8cent) and had to clamber across several other boats, rucksacks in tow to get onto our boat. Then we headed off into the night across the bay. We arrived at our destination and walked for about 10 minutes across the island with the sky still black. There where crows everywhere making a racket. I felt like I was walking through the set of Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn crossed with The Birds, with the palm-tree silhouettes against the blue-black sky, people milling around starting to open up the little shop fronts and oh my god the crows!!!!! Everywhere! So we will be here for 3 days I think then head south along the coast to do the Backwaters tour and end up somewhere near Trivandrum, on the southern tip of the continent.
We arrived in the early hours of this morning at about 4.30 am at Ernakulam. Kochi is made up of a group of tiny islands linked together by ferries so we had to wait for a couple of hours for the first ferry from Ernakulam to Fort Cochin the island we wanted to stay on. We took the little boat for 4 rupees (8cent) and had to clamber across several other boats, rucksacks in tow to get onto our boat. Then we headed off into the night across the bay. We arrived at our destination and walked for about 10 minutes across the island with the sky still black. There where crows everywhere making a racket. I felt like I was walking through the set of Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn crossed with The Birds, with the palm-tree silhouettes against the blue-black sky, people milling around starting to open up the little shop fronts and oh my god the crows!!!!! Everywhere! So we will be here for 3 days I think then head south along the coast to do the Backwaters tour and end up somewhere near Trivandrum, on the southern tip of the continent.
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