Lazy beach whales – that is us!

What to say! 

We are leading very quiet and sedentary lives at the moment so different from our active lives in Gulmarg.  We have gone from two months adventure skiing to two weeks of lying on a beach chair.  Not that we are complaining, the truth is we are both enjoying it. 

We were looking fit and trim after all our hard work in Gulmarg but unfortunately the weight we lost is slowly going back on.  I went down two belt knotches and Jim was looking slim, more like the guy I met many years ago.  What can you expect with all this lying around and yummy food to eat.  Not too worry!  Not even the early morning rigorous yoga workouts are keeping the weight off – tell you more on those later.

I have been visiting a second hand bookshop “Ancy’s Book Store” down one of the many lane ways off the beach.  It is so easy to read a book every couple of days when reading is one of the main activities of the day.  

The first day I went to the bookshop there was an elderly Icelandic lady sitting there.  We started talking books, she had worked in publishing and has been visiting Kerala for many years every January and February to get away from their cold and dark days.  We were chatting away then the owner arrived, I introduced myself and then he said his name was Joy, I said are you joking?  Both the Icelandic lady (forgot her name was probably Helga) and Joy just laughed.  Jim said I was gone for an hour.  We were having a great chat all three of us.

At present I am reading “Yoga School Dropout” which is apt because Kovalam is the home of Ayurveda Medicine and yoga. 

We are the only tourists who sit under the umbrellas covered up

Looking up the beach from the rock garden (back to our end of the beach)

Another beautiful day

Standing in Rock Garden looking to Hawah Beach (next beach along)

The end of the day from our balcony

View from top of light house (our hotel is the one in the foreground with the orange)