Well I finally go round to starting the trip blog... :)
To bring you all up to date;
We flew into Cochin and managed to have a bit of a look round. One of the first things to hit you is the noise, everything that rides or drives on the roads beeps it's horn... all the time... road rules are, shall we say, interesting. Picture if you will, a single carrageway road with cars, trucks, buses all driving on the left, that is unless they are overtaking, which they do alot and not often when there is nothing coming the otherway, so now we have things on both sides of the road weaving in and out of the oncomming traffic. Add to this pedestrians and pushbikes, then there is livestock, goats, chickens and the like oh, and cows which pretty much have the right of way over everything, I have to say this is the first time I have seen a cow sitting in the road on a roundabout and everyone just drives round it..
Following Cochin we had a long drive to Madurai, which has some really beautiful areas and again is hugely busy. From Madurai we day tripped to Pomban where the grand parents got married, we found the church and visited the port office and bungalow where they lived and worked for a while.
From Madurai we travelled to Pondicherry with a plan to look at the port bungalow another place the young family Balmforth lived, we missed it when we looked today, but we have found it on a map and will visit tomorrow.
I have taken many pictures, I'll post some when I have a little time to resize them etc.
Right, time for bed..
I will update tomorrow hopefully on finding the house at Fort St David
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A brilliant blog evoking for us many memories of our 2007 trip. Many thanks David for all your hard work. One amendment from Jen! Dad was Port Officer in Cuddalore (Fort St. David) which was close to Pondicherry, which was a French colony at the time. I remember Mum telling me about their trips "across the border" to shop for luxuries they could not buy in "British India".
ReplyDeleteObviously you are all having a wonderful time and I am with you all the way!! Love from us both. Jen and John.