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Indian sunset


above: the bin's painted 'use me!' sign went largely disregarded.

After leaving Vietnam, Iain had to rush back to Scotland to attend a stag party, and I went to India by myself for a too-fast ten-day visit before joining him. I've wanted to visit India for years, but with only ten days, I decided to forgo the famous sites in favor of something a little more chilled out. I chose Kerala for no special reason other than that one of my favorite novels was set there,  but it turned out to be a pretty awesome place. 


Though the whole visit was awesome, my favorite day in India was probably the first day, before the monsoon hit, where I wandered around Fort Cochin aimlessly and watched the sunset on the beach amidst the crowds of families.


(and also nuns)


Chinese fishing nets. 


I'm so late in blogging about India that I can no longer remember all the things I wanted to blog about, but I'll try to post a few more photos, at least. And then maybe, eventually, this blog can fall back in sync with real time?


senbon at sunset


Last week, my old roommate Kate and her friend Sari came to visit us in Numazu! We were so excited to see them both, and to get the chance to show off our favorite places - particularly Senbon beach, which graced us with some amazingly gorgeous clear weather.








There was a New Years tree sculpture of some sort down on the beach (above).

Cai Be sunset



Tourist boats near the Cai Be floating market (which was closed for Tet, so, next time, hopefully). 

Cai Be riverfront


My neurotic compulsion to turn everything into a narrative has been battling my even more neurotic aversion to posting haphazard photos that don't go together or that I don't think are particularly interesting, so I'm going to let the day-by-day retelling of the bike trip fall by the wayside and just post photos as I sort through them (in case you noticed, or care about that sort of thing. Hi, Maggie and Lenora and the other three people that read this!). At any rate, skipping ahead a few days, this is from the one town we visited that wasn't in any guidebook, and which was, by far, my favorite place in terms of scenery. 

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