Kerala Travel Blog

Fort Cochin

I went on my first trip to India with a whole bagful of pre-conceptions. It was going to be noisy? Check. Hot? Check. Crazy? Check. And I was going to eat my body weight in spectacular curries? Check. But what I wasn’t prepared for was the spectacular beauty of the country and the warmth, kindness [...]

In an age of e-mail and Facebook, I hadn’t stepped into a post office in years, but here I was at a PO in a small town buying a postcard. This one’s for me, so I write my own address on it and hand it back to the clerk. She smiles and stamps it—with a [...]