Living the Dream When we first went to Kerala as part of a two week tour of southern India about ten years ago, one of the highlights should have been taking a boat trip on the Kerala backwaters. In fact it turned out to be a massive disappointment. We got shoved in a nasty boat with a noisy, stinky engine and I got a bit travel sick from the diesel fumes and the humidity and felt rotten for the next two days. As we chugged along in our nasty little boat, we couldn't help but notice how the other half lived. Beautiful converted rice barges were gliding elegantly along the waters, their ...
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