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Varkala – sunset

I was randomly snapping photos of people walking past whilst sat at a beach front restaurant. By a happy coincidence we ended up chatting to Tom & Lisa pictured above. That’s serendipity for you. And an opportunity to finally use the word.

Gin, apparently.

Would you actually drink this? Pat’s been doing so. Two bottles of it to be exact. And then complaining about headaches. I wonder why. Give the budget distillation that seems to go on here I reckon it’s probably full of Methanol which could go on to explain the headaches…

Numerology

(click to make this bigger if you can’t read it) Numerology is like astrology only much sillier. Have a look at my, err, reading (summing? Addition? Bill?) for the month. I’m a bit disappointed I’m not in the “sports, police, the armed forces and automobile industry” categories. Perhaps a career change is required. Still, “I’ll be in the pink of health” turned out to be absolutely correct after dabbling with the midday sun. By the way can anyone find a […]

Fishy this one…

Sometimes you order something and you’re not sure what will turn up. This is called a surprise. Sometimes you order something and you think you know what will turn up. What actually arrives at the table is something that puts you back in the first category. As way of an example I ordered Spaghetti carbonara on day and got Chinese vegetables with tomato sauce.

Club Sandwich #2

The quest for the club sandwich continues… This one was OK, 5/10 a great improvement. Crunchy bread, soft egg, even something vaguely resembling chicken in it. The crispy things whatever they’re supposed to be were stale, we fed them to the local dogs but them seemed fairly unimpressed.

Varkala – Map Reference

For the curious we're here    

Collective noun for Palm Trees?

Has anyone got a suggestion for this? There’s a whole bunch here, but no palm trees… Maybe a “sway” is in order… Seems a little un-imaginative to me though.

Cactus Trouble

Don’t they normally grow the other way round? For all you google map fans were here at the moment.

Preserves

There seems to be some strange shift in the colour palette of the jam/marmalade here. It’s a bit like them changing the colour of salt & vinegar and cheese & onion crisps. What was that all about? Answers on a comments page please… The above jam is yellow… so it tastes of… lemon? Lime? Some other yellow thing I can’t remember the name of? No, it tastes of strawberries obviously. Yesterday’s red jam tasted of pineapple. The green jam tastes […]

Tea for Two

Ah, tea on the veranda, how civilised. There’s a lot of tea drinking in India. I know this probably comes as no great surprise. The tea of the masses is of course “Chai” usually served in some sort of disposable earthenware cup that imparts a slightly strange taste to the drink and draws all the moisture out of your lips. Being unglazed your lips also tend to stick to it. Nice. Splashing out on a pot for maybe 60 rupees […]

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