Fort Cochin, Kerala

We chose a delightful hotel to stay in while in Fort Cochin, The Tower House. This is a Neemrana 

hotel , a group of boutique heritage hotels in India which is French managed and which prides itself on providing ‘a hotel which is not a hotel’!

We had a great room looking out to the Chinese Fishing nets, which are superb.

As I was taking photos I was invited to walk the plank and see how they worked!

Very impressive! And quite hard work.......

The catch is sold right there and one can even buy some fish and take it to one of the local stalls to be cooked.  We didn’t try that!

Some of the fishermen do actually go out in small boats to catch their fish.......

We also went to see a Kathakali ritual dance performance.  Very slow!  But amazing make up and costumes!

We did eat in the garden of the Old Harbour Hotel, which is part of the SLH group of hotels. We had tried to get a room there but they were fully booked.  We were not impressed with their restaurant. Our waiter had a very confused look and wrote our order down twice. That didn’t stop them bringing the courses in the wrong order and trying to persuade us to eat them that way! Ambience was there…… but we could have forgiven the service if the food had been excellent.  However it was only just OK and extremely expensive!  We would not return there.

We would return to the Tower House!

Our room was extremely large and was very comfortable 

and the local scene was just outside our window....