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Sleep brilliantly – lovely breakfast of toast, home made jam and muffins, eggs for Daisy, fresh fruit and squeezed orange juice.
Tour in the morning – first stop St Francis Church…
…then on to Chinese fishing nets…
…then Jew Town (antiques and spices) including the synagogue…
Then the Mattancherry Palace (known as the Dutch Palace despite being Portugese), one or two emporia/shops for bearings and then home.
Light lunch – prawns on sticks and mini dosas on hotel terrace.
Delightful Sheila provides us with ideas for shopping and agrees to come in early to advise Sharji.
We rest by pool, swim a little and enjoy late today sun on our terrace.
Then I spot cricketers on the parade ground and watch for a while. Get dressed to go out and play with “the other children”, by which time they were gone.
Consolation dinner – tangy grilled prawns – Daisy – and mixed seafood platter – me. Chocolate roulade – all delightful.
We were serenaded by Antony and Benny while we ate that evening. We still sometimes listen to the CD of their gentle, simple flute and strings music and strangely, at the time of writing, in February 2020, are there to be seen as one of the three images up front on the Malabar House website.