Calming Kannur

Caught the overnight train from Goa to Kannur - was not the most restfull of sleeper trains as unfortunately Indians seem to be very short and the sleeper beds in the train don't fit tall people. This combined with the fact that our beds were next to the door of the carriage, and therefore it kept hitting our feet, made for a crap nights sleep.

We got on a rickshaw seemingly to the middle of nowhere to Kannur Beach House. It was another little oasis of calm, a stones throw from the beach which at this stage only has three homestays using it. Was long stretches of beautiful golden sands and noone else in sight 90% of the time - bliss. Our hosts Rosie and Nizhir, there three children and two dogs were lovely and served us amazing food. I was suprised to find all the dishes i kept asking about appearing on the menu - colin did tell me a day or so later that Rosie had told him it was Indian tradition to give a pregnant woman any food she asked for! I stopped mentioning things at that stage much to colins annoyance as he was keen for some crab!

Again lazy days on the beach, reading, walking and entertaining the nutty dogs - coconutty and curly as we named them.

Did manage to get to a Theyam - not all the bells whistles and fireworks as apparently can happen. We saw a somewhat lacklustre early morning ceremony which was all a little bizarre - was something to be seen though and colin even got a blessing from Vishnu. Hopefully some photos will follow. The costume was very elaborate though and the guy did have his arms above his head for a good couple of hours.

Had few issues with sorting trains for our onward journey - got to love the indian rail system. Ended up at the train station and seemingly got told one thing which was then wrong, brought back up tickets but should have had faith in our original booking as it came through in the end. Saw us leaving Kannur a little sooner than anticipated but with Easter and holidays thought best to go with it.