We ate like kings, neither of us were ill, and we can now whip up a mean curry, southern indian stylee! Parotta (flaky pancakes), fish moily (cocunut curry), dhal fry, kashmiri rice and veg pakora (deep fried, battered veg!). This will be our new signature feast, no more butternut squash risotto! We chilled out a for a few more days in Varkala, although I got lobstered, and couldn't go in the sun very much. We spent a manic afternoon posting a parcel back to the UK, which you have to get stitched up by a tailor, only to get a taxi up the hill to the post office, only to find that parcels weren't accepted after 3pm! Grrr. Still, succeeded the following day and then caught the wrong train from Varkala (having watied at the station
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