Thanks to being disconnected and unattached we managed to have jon a surprise birthday and were only alerted to the fact it was his birthday after he received a very enthusiastic "happy new year" from the hotel owner as we departed for our 7 hour kerala backwater cruise it was only after spending the next two hours perplexed and bemused by his parting words that we thought to ask the date and found out then....
we then celebrating by enjoying a 7 hour cruise hand powered , very slow though relaxing and felt like very rich tourists as the wind came up and they were struggling to push along the 2o something ft barge with two bamboo poles and had to bring out another man to help gets us into calmer waters.
we then ended up going out to dinner with the people on the tours... could you believe we are old fogies now but had a enjoyable night jonsie even got to have a few beers... it was however our most expensive meal here yet costing 1100 rupees jon said lucky it was his birthday...... but we have now made some nice friends and will be able to travell to ireland, france, mexico and collumbia and have places and locals to show us around also... we are apparently expecting some more tourist buddies when we get home!!! not that we have a house to share.
we got a motorbike yesterday and went for a drive packed onto a car/truck/motorbike/tuktuk ferry for 5 ruppees and went to the other side and found an awesome beach to go swimming at toally desserted cause were still at the end of the monsoon season and no tourist... it was however very nice to go for a swim and shallow and warm so the boys loved it too.
weve watched the chinese fishing nets in action and ate fresh fish and prawns which we chose and then they cook for us..
now we are feeling better we are enjoying ourselves again and are now off today to head further south to either varkala or ??????? looking forward to heading north which i always thought i would enjoy as stories sound amazing especially siikh? and eastwards which id say we'll do after nepal....
will post photos when we can a lot of the internet places say no downloading photos or otherwise it is riddiculously slow and times out but will do a mass upload soon..
love you all and having a ball...now
WE ARE FINE WE ARE SAFE WE ARE LOVING IT.
LOVE THE BOYS AND BANKSIA
we then celebrating by enjoying a 7 hour cruise hand powered , very slow though relaxing and felt like very rich tourists as the wind came up and they were struggling to push along the 2o something ft barge with two bamboo poles and had to bring out another man to help gets us into calmer waters.
we then ended up going out to dinner with the people on the tours... could you believe we are old fogies now but had a enjoyable night jonsie even got to have a few beers... it was however our most expensive meal here yet costing 1100 rupees jon said lucky it was his birthday...... but we have now made some nice friends and will be able to travell to ireland, france, mexico and collumbia and have places and locals to show us around also... we are apparently expecting some more tourist buddies when we get home!!! not that we have a house to share.
we got a motorbike yesterday and went for a drive packed onto a car/truck/motorbike/tuktuk ferry for 5 ruppees and went to the other side and found an awesome beach to go swimming at toally desserted cause were still at the end of the monsoon season and no tourist... it was however very nice to go for a swim and shallow and warm so the boys loved it too.
weve watched the chinese fishing nets in action and ate fresh fish and prawns which we chose and then they cook for us..
now we are feeling better we are enjoying ourselves again and are now off today to head further south to either varkala or ??????? looking forward to heading north which i always thought i would enjoy as stories sound amazing especially siikh? and eastwards which id say we'll do after nepal....
will post photos when we can a lot of the internet places say no downloading photos or otherwise it is riddiculously slow and times out but will do a mass upload soon..
love you all and having a ball...now
WE ARE FINE WE ARE SAFE WE ARE LOVING IT.
LOVE THE BOYS AND BANKSIA
Hi , glad you're all well and loving it. Sounds like a great make it up as you go along adventure , "spontaneity a lovely word "... but better when you get the ... make the.. opportunity to do it.
ReplyDeletewe're still missing you all but glad to hear your tales
see more photos soon
love mum and dad