After starting many of the other entries with things along the lines of "after a trouble free journey", "after a straightforward flight" heres one that is a bit different. Yes, the flight down to Cochin was ok. An hour late but that pretty much counts as on time here. In the interests of time we then went the wallet splurge route of a taxi straight to Varkala Beach, a distance of about 200km, sharing with a girl Sarah who we'd met at the airport. All well and good for the first half then the driving standards slipped, the speed dropped, cyclists were narrowly avoided, we were uneasy. When it came to a bridge with options to travel over it or take the sharp left turn and follow the riverbank our driver took option three - the
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