Cochin

here I am in Cochin, having got a 0530 train with no reservation so took unreserved sleeper class -- turned out for most of the journey to be less crowded than the usual reserved AC carriages that I have been travelling in.


Annoyingly my mobile ran out of power and there was no charge point in the Rs50/= dorm that I was staying in, so I had no alarm clock; instead I had to rely on the clock inside my camera which is set to UTC, luckily realising that I had mistaken the conversion amount by an hour before I went to bed. So every half hour i had to wake up, power up the camera, perform time conversion and then suspend for another half hour.

Train got me here at about 1pm, rickshaw driver was desperate to sell me prostitutes even before he tried to sell me drugs, an ordering that i've not seen before in this country. I checked into the YMCA where I have a nice clean room with private bathroom with western toilet for Rs350/=.

Probably will stay two nights here giving me all of tomorrow and the morning of the day after (as well as the rest of today) here before I wander off to Goa.