Day 8 - The heat gets to K and she goes native.

Woke up to the beautiful scenery of Kerala through the large bedroom window on our houseboat. The second day without hot water was a bit of a worry for K but the very helpful staff brought a huge bucket of boiling water and a jug, it actually felt luxurious! Another huge meal for breakfast and an hour sailing back to port we were very sad to see the end of the boat trip (although M was starting to pace the deck, as he'd been cooped up for too long!). Our car took us the hours drive to Fort Cochin and we checked into our next homestay with a very helpful host. More private than our last homestay where everytime you left your room they were standing out the door trying to be friendly.

The main sights of Fort Cochin were quite close so we headed off to walk around however it was very humid and the heat started to make a mess of K. We stopped for lunch and then headed to a shop for K to buy a cool "ethnic/Indian skirt" and ditch those hot shorts. We walked around the foreshore where the locals tried to sell us fish that they would cook on the spot. We then hired a tuk tuk, but unfortunately we had inadvertently jumped queue and another driver came over and got violent with our driver, shoving and grabbing him, pulling on his brake and refusing to allow him to take us. We saw his point but didn't want to go to him either as he obviously had a horrid temper. We decided to get out and leave them to it. We started walking, planning to pick up another driver further along the way. A few minutes later the original driver stopped and picked us up, which turned out to be a bad choice on our behalf,as he turned out to be another pushy driver, demanding shop stops, and asking and pleading for extra money continually.
After taking in the afternoon sights we headed back to our room and spent some time getting our neglected blog up to date!