Blogs from Kochi, Kerala, India, Asia - page 12

Mosquito bites 3 Sickness 0 Diarrhoea 0 So after each morning in the palace that I'm staying in - 6.30am morning newspapers 6.45am telephone- what do you want for breakfast (even though the answer is always the same...'something different, and something indian') 7.00am breakfast 7.15am telephone- your cab is outside (all the while the doorbell for the flat is loud enough to be heard in a palace, and this is all before I've had a cuppa tea!) 7.30am car drive to the hospital. I am really grateful that I am living like a queen and i have my own car and driver, but not so grateful that he waits inside casualty to pick me up to take me back to the palace. No wonder the doctors in casualty are telling the local people that I am ... read more

I have bitten the travel bug listening to my father's travel tales around the world. I'm sure there are many who would identify with my insatiable need to see places, meet people, eat food that are different from mine..... Come share my adventure in exploring the world!... read more

Hey im in Cochin, I think its super awesome that one of the bros from kottayam came to visit his bro and the rest of us from the team---just 2 continue the fellowship. I was super encourage b/c we come from the same mother b/c he is a Michael Jackson fan just like me.... but on a more spiritual note: im excited w/being on the team b/c there are 4 disciples (including myself) that was baptized in the year of 2006, that's so cool the way God created this team 2gether w/our senior citizens (tim, collin and chad)...lol... The churches here from india loves u and cant wait 2see the next team!!! shout out 2my roomie (ericka) ever1 say HI!!!... read more

Varkala is a place where you will forget all your tensions and sadness while you’ll simply start grooving to the taps of the musical waves of the Varkala cliff beach. My relation with Varkala began exactly two years before. When I first heard about Varkala, I didn’t even know where it is on a map. Then when I met some people who went down there, they explained me that God is for real. Believe it or not but it’s for real. That’s what they explained to me. I didn’t understand anything from those words. But then I met another set of people who went there and they described me the meaning of immortality. This time I got really confused and those clues started haunting me. God and immortality, maybe that one connects but what about ... read more

The pages of my diary feel limp and damp. Fresh towels smell musty. Laundry dries, but only relatively speaking. The Calcutta-acquired Polos are soft and crumbly. We are kept awake by claps of thunder more deafening than any I’ve ever heard. Our movements to and from dinner are delicately gauged to try and avoid the worst of the downpours. My Mac waves the white flag and sacrifices its mouse-click capability, and the cursor develops a life of its own. The local football pitch resembles a lake; the boys play on regardless. Welcome to the early days of the monsoon in Kerala, or, as our sweet chatty host puts it the next day, the “pilot rains”, the actual monsoon being yet to come, so we’re told. We’re sceptical. A month later, I was walking down the street ... read more