This stretch of the frenzied journey served as a reward for everyone — lazing by the swimming pool, cycling through country lanes, being buffeted by the warm waves of the Arabian Sea, drifting through backwaters in a modified canoe. By this stage, for the adults, there was little of the sense of adventure that had characterized our earlier trips to India, though we continued to marvel at recent developments in the country that made our lives easier now — such as functioning cash points. But every day brought something new to Sam and Esme.
The only shame was that we had to part company with Rajesh who, like everyone we met, could not have been nicer to the children. Sam gashed his foot in the pool at Privacy but by then Zoe and I were beyond worrying. The junior contingent started moaning, but only that we absolutely had to return to Kerala at the earliest possible opportunity.
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