Thursday 29th December 1983
We were intending to go to Cape Cormorin on the 06:45 hrs. bus but due to my latest bout of diarrhoea we ignored the alarm at 06:15 hrs. and slept in until 10:00 hrs. Kanyakumari, also known as Cape Comorin, is a town in Kanyakumari District in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The southernmost town in mainland India, it is sometimes referred to as 'the Land's End'.
I still managed a hearty breakfast of 4 poached eggs and toast before doing some clothes washing. A rather nasty smell was emanating from George’s towel, so he set about washing that too. The good thing about this climate is that you can wear very few clothes, mainly just shorts, swimming costumes and a T-shirt, so little dirty laundry accumulates.
That done, we set off for the secluded beach south of the lighthouse. We swam for a bit and I took up a sheltered position in the shadow of the rocks to read my book out of the sun’s glare. When it started raining, we returned to the Shangri-La. We were feeling “washed out” in the afternoon so we had a siesta.
I started reading “Christine” by Stephen King and could not put it down. Christine is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a car (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) apparently possessed by supernatural forces.
We had an evening reading session in the Shangri-La, battling for sufficient light against power cuts and sea breezes that blew out the subsequent candles. It pissed down with rain all evening and at 23:45 hrs. we got fed up with waiting for it to stop and dashed back to our room to bed.
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