We have reached our final destination! I thought I’d managed to get an Uber to take us back down the endless winding road back to Kochi but then it seemed like he’d gone in a completely different direction so I had to cancel.
Leju, our homestay host who is also a taxi driver, offered to take us back for twice the price but it was worth it to have a gentle calm driver round all the bends and road works! He even insisted on washing the car before we left!
We are happy to be back here. As we get older we enjoy staying in places for longer, letting the environment become familiar rather than racing from one place to another, ticking off each and every tourist attraction!
We do less but because we have been here so many times people remember us. The other day we flagged down a rickshaw to go down to Mattancherry to meet up with friends from Portugal and who should pick us up but Zakki who we first met six years ago in his brand new multi coloured tuk tuk! He gave us a free ride!
Accidentally we chanced upon Yousuf’s Art Gallery…still the same…and looking through old pics on our phones it was ten years since we were last there! Free ginger lime sodas and home made fruit cake!
Charlie put his exhibition up in RedYoungs Sports club and has been going there every afternoon chatting to the locals and taking more photos.
Meanwhile I’m loving spending time at the Cochin club, swimming alone in the pool surrounded by squawking crows and egrets, and yesterday in the huge rain tree I saw an eagle and a kingfisher!
Watching the sun go down each evening and hoping we will be back again very soon!
