We've been chilling in Varkala now for about 5 days and although El's cold and cough is still lingering, we're feeling much more relaxed. We've started going to a yoga class once a day (MORE than enough!) and have met up with a few ashram-escapees and have set up a poker group. Our yoga teacher is a bit nutty (all the best ones are) and we do a breathing exercise called "dog breath" where you are on all fours panting like a dog. Last night we played poker for pebbles; tonight we play for rupees!
Varkala is quite touristy - little more than a beach, a cliff and a row of restaurants, hotels and shops - but it has a lovely chilled vibe. The beach is perfect - yellow sand, clear blue water, and strange orange cliffs overlooking. The sea is quite rough but great for swimming and body boarding if you're mindful of the currents (and mum don't worry there are life guards!).
We're staying in a cute little bamboo hut (well, it's wood with bamboo fascias!) with our own veranda and very friendly staff and we think we're going to stay put now until Christmas. Every day the accommodation prices rise so it isn't in our interest to move on. In any case we're just getting into the swing of getting up at 8.30am, yoga class, late breakfast, chill out for a couple of hours in the shade, swim and chill on the beach for a couple of hours, watch terrific sunsets at around 6pm, find somewhere nice to eat and hang out with our new friends (Teedah & Adj, Louisa & James, James and Claudio the horny Italian - he is GAGGING for some female company!!!) and playing poker and shithead and generally doing BUGGER ALL.
Today was the first Monday in a LONG TIME that we looked forward to getting out of bed!
The only thing we haven't done yet is find Nancy's (El's cousin's) random pub mate, Damon's, friend who apparently lives here...the search continues though. We broke our veggie-only rule last night and had butter fish and calamari. So far no problems and the fish was delish! Now, off to have another papaya lassi I think.
[p.s. we've now uploaded all our photos to flickr so we're up-to-date there if anyone is interested.]
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