December 19th – Food and more food……

The trip is fully catered – we get breakfast, lunch and dinner. For every meal we have three vegetable side dishes, a main stew or dahl, rice and either papads or chapattis. It’s all absolutely delicious Keralan food made with loads of coconut. For dessert we either have something sweet or a plateful of pineapple slices and orange segments that melt in the mouth. I think this is some of the best food I have ever tasted. If we were to spend much longer than three days here I’ll be the size of a house(boat)!

Lunchtime spread - dinner is even larger!

We had a bad buggy experience on the first evening. The electric light in the living area seemed to attract a most exciting and diverse swarm of insect life. I had to abandon my beer because of the sheer number of suicidal creatures that had decided to end their lives swimming themselves into an alcoholic stupor. We were pleased to discover that there are probably ten or more lizards living in the ceiling which were having a veritable feast day! On the second day there were far fewer little beasties and we were able to enjoy our dinner without the additional crunchy topping!

Lizard on the ceilingFishermen on the canalsJoseph driving the boat in the afternoon sun