Boarding the Emirates plane in Nice we picked a complimentary magazine , which on the front cover , showed that it had an article on India.
In fact it has Rajasthani recipes in it! As we were on our way to India via Dubai and will be visiting Rajasthan we felt it was a little prophetic.
Nice airport is a breeze, one reserves parking ahead of time on their Click & Pay system
and then it is only a 4 minute walk to the Terminal.
There is a choice of places to eat, while waiting to board and some duty free stores. And the airport is not too busy, nor is it very large.
Dubai, on the other hand is very large with lots and lots of shops. We were there 1-4am and it was like going to a shopping center before Christmas. Amazing!
En route to Mumbai we watched our first Bollywood movie!! It was very interesting!
It had a very attractive actress whose photos we have seen all round the place on billboards since arrival. Her name is Aishwariya Rai with Abhiskekh Buchahan , they are married and are apparently India’s answer to Brangelina.
Our next airport was Mumbai. No photos allowed in any Indian airports. It took 1.5 hours to get from the International side to the Domestic side of the same airport! About 4kms.
And then we took a flight to Cochin in Kerala. This is a very small airport but is international. It could not handle probably more than 2 planes coming in per hour.
We were picked up at the airport and as we went in to Fort Cochin realized that the roads are extremely crowded with a huge assortment of methods of transport!
Buses of all size and age! Open trucks with many passengers sitting behind, autorickshaws, motorbikes,bikes……….and of course there were quite a few goats grazing at the side of the road, and the odd cow!
No wonder it takes 1-1.5 hours from the airport to Fort Cochin which is only 40 kms!
Beginning to wonder if TripAdvisor has a section on airports of the world!
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