After one local bus, one second class train without AC and one ferry we made it to Fort Kochi. Straightaway we noticed that we were no longer the only western tourists around, after five nights on the isolated Spice Farm we relished this and treated ourselves to a pizza on the first night.
We began our first full day in Fort Kochi by again treating ourselves to a non- Indian breakfast then heading out to explore the area. We walked around the Fort Kochi and Matterncherry area trying to spot all the street art on Bazaar Road. At one stage we spotted a huge house that had all sorts of antiques at the front of the building, as we were having a nosey the owner of the house pulls up on his Royal Enfield motorcycle and invites us in the property to take a look at his personal antiques museum which covered both floors of the house.
That evening we headed to the harbour to watch the sunset over the Chinese fishing nets. We also managed to buy a Red Snapper from one of the fisherman and they barbequed it on the beach for us whilst we watched the sunset.
We had a pretty quiet start to the following day, as it was Sunday it seemed all the males of Fort Kochi were playing either football or cricket on the small park nearby our guesthouse. There was about four cricket games and a football match all going on at the same time, with the footballers playing on the cricket pitches and fielders standing on the football pitch, no one cared, they were just having fun.
That afternoon we did a cooking class at Maria’s South Indian Cooking school. She taught us the importance and the role that each spice and ingredient plays in the cooking process for various vegetarian dishes. We made a tamarind chutney, lemon rice and few different curries which were all delicous. She gave us copies of the recipes for all of the dishes we made, we’re looking forward to trying them out when we get back home.
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