Idyllic Coasts
Mangrove beach, mini Goa After being told by multiple people, as we headed up the coast, to visit Mini Goa we took a short detour off our route and visited this rather picturesque estuary as it enters the sea, complete with mangrove trees and of course plenty of rubbish. It would be idyllic if people didn’t just drop their rubbish everywhere whilst walking to the beach and as we’re heading that way, we hope Goa actually isn’t this bad. It’s been quite tidy with little rubbish for much of Kerala with pockets of really messy areas. In some of those areas, we...
Read MoreBack at the coast
Our final ride to the coast was a short hop from our riverside hotel to our beach hotel – it’s a hard life this cycle touring! The hotel was very basic. Room, window, door, balcony and air con. But the balcony was above the sea defences and the waves would surely splash it when the sea was rough. But we’d picked a calm day and enjoyed the sound of the sea crashing against the rocks below our window from inside the air con room. It was too hot to sit on the balcony! We’d had a very pleasant ride to that hotel and got stopped by a group of Hindi women all laughing...
Read MoreThe Tea Plantations
The town of Munnar isn’t much to write home about, but the hills surrounding it are covered in tea plantations. Almost every square inch is utilised and it’s incredibly beautiful. We’d booked a hotel with a balcony facing the hills and loved watching the ladies picking the tea by hand with a pair of sheers. We visited the tea museum which was fascinating and explained that all the plantations were planted under the British and prior to this the area was forested. Eventually one of the largest companies here remaining from British days was sold to the workers and is...
Read MoreMan down
I’ve had trouble with my back all my life. I can pick a pair of socks up and then be unable to get out of a burning building as it hurts so much. Over the years treatments have changed from 2 weeks rest to have a cup of tea and carry on. For the last few years this has worked fine, but this time it really didn’t make much difference so I was hobbling around our resort hotel looking like a 90 year old who’s just pooped himself. To make matters worse my knee, which again has caused me issue for a while now, has been playing up. It needs a deep tissue massage...
Read MoreBest we stay another night
Varkala Cliff The whole point of coming to Varkala was to walk along the cliff edge restaurants and ‘posh tat’ stalls and obviously we didn’t make it having got waylaid chatting in the restaurant the night before. So when we woke up we booked another night at the other end of the town and had a very strenuous 4.7km ride to get there that thankfully we managed to break in to two with a stop for a iced chocolate coffee – yummy! We checked in to our new hotel and adjourned to the pool. We had a brief swim and another English couple turned up and we got...
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