Hi everybody
My apologies for the delay in
publishing comments you've been kind enough to leave. I forgot to
tick the box asking Blogger to prompt me by email each time a comment
was left, awaiting approval. I've amended this now.
(Friday 24th) we had an
early Dinner so I could sit in our lovely cool room at the Radisson
hotel and catch up on Blogposts. Sadly their internet/wifi was
rubbish and it crashed and lost 4 posts I'd written.
Anybody who has tried to keep a Blog
whilst travelling – with limited free time and 'iffy' internet
access will know how frustrating it can be.
Writing posts is the easy bit as long
as you do it fairly soon after each 'adventure' or you forget bits.
The hard bit is downsizing photos to the size that Blogger will
accept without charging. This may not be a problem for first-time
bloggers, or those who haven't made too many posts – but our Indian
travel blogs (this is the third) tag onto my arty website so I
exceeded my 'free' allowance ages ago and have to ensure all current
photos I post are reduced to a small size. All of this takes time
and more patience that I normally have – David will attest to the
fact that the air is generally pretty blue on these occasions..
One major change I've made is that I will now always write Blog posts
in Word (or similar programme) and copy/paste to Blogger so I have a
back up on the written stuff, if not the photos in future.
Fingers crossed, I hope to catch up
tonight!
The steam train post was the only one that didn't 'disappear' so it is out of sequence but I'm not going to mess with anything .... prior to the train journey we had other travel experiences which I'm going to add now.
FORT COCHIN WEDS 22ND
We arrived at Fort Cochin by taxi at
Noon. We stayed at a boutique type hotel which basically means
hotel with tiny rooms I think. But it was in a good location and
had AirCon BLISS! The temperatures have been in the high 30s and
its humid so very draining when sightseeing.
We walked to the famous Chinese Fishing
boats but didn't spend long there as the tourist coaches had arrived
so the touts/hawkers were being very persistent. I commented on
last year's blog that the place is very much nicer early morning or
late afternoon when the coaches have been and gone. The real
activity takes place then with the fishing nets genuinely catching
fish and the wholesalers auctioning the catches which are then
filtered down to the retailers selling small quantities. When
the tourists are around the nets are theatrically raised/lowered in
order to attract customers to get closer/pay money to take photos.
Sadly the place looked much dirtier
than we remembered. The monsoon rains failed this Winter and all
the lakes/waterways in Kerala are depleted which may have added to
the impression of 'run down'
Sorry for readers of last year's blog –
I'm going to show more photos of the area (but not as many this
time).
Yes the water certainly does look pretty sad. Don't you think this is often the case when you go back to somewhere you have loved previously?
ReplyDeleteBlogging whilst on holiday is a real trial. I always write it up in Word and just cut and paste. I've also written a Photoshop "action" on my travel laptop so I can just press a button to resize but its still a very slow process. Thank you for persevering, its lovely to read
ReplyDeleteHi Di. Yes I agree its often the case although we really enjoyed our second visit to Olavipe homestay on arrival in India. We knew we needed to rest for a day or so after the 22 hours of travelling and it suited us perfectly - plus we did some additional 'walks' so it wasn't 'same old, same old' .... But Fort Cochin wasn't looking good this time round - the main focus for us was the next morning's trip to Ernakulam by Ferry.
ReplyDeleteYep, Blogging regularly whilst travelling is very difficult but once you miss a day or so its so hard to remember what you did/where you went isn't it? I'd love to be able to spend more time 'culling' and manipulating photos but its really just a case of posting a random selection at the time in order to keep up!