The end of India

well hello everyone!!!!
its chook here at last. jamie and I at the moment are chilling out on a beach again for our last week in India.
Yes the end has fallen on our first stage of travelling. India has been our home for the last 3-4 months and what laughs, cries, frustrations, euphoria we have had. We have made some life long friends here, and met some quite unsavoury characters, plus some right nutters!
The beach area we are in is a place called Varkala in Kerala. It has white and black sand, with a huge red cliff facing out to sea. All the places to stay are up on top of this cliff, and we have a very nice room, apart from the little ants nest in the making just outside our door. Clever little buggers. Jamie swept the dust mound they made on the floor away when we left for breakfast this morning, and by the time we made it back, they had made another one!
Its quite interesting watching them work, bringing all their little bits of food into the nest in perfect order. Their like a real live version of the borg off star treck!
Jamie being Jamie though spent his time yesterday whacking all the queen ants trying to get home. all I could hear from outside our room was WHACK WHACK...."you little bastard!" over and over again, which gave me and Neil a little entertainment that evening.
Anyway enough about the ants, since we left Arambol, we have been travelling around Kerala. We left to go straight into Cochin (fort cochin) after a very long train journey(gotta love those trains). The place itself was very pretty, having still retained the colonial portugeuse quality to the buildings and steets....... but having been to the real down and out rough dirty authenticly Indian places before, I did not feel like I was in India anymore (no toto either). Plus It was stupidly expensive to stay and eat. So we only stayed a couple of days.