{"id":403,"date":"2011-12-21T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelnaylor.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2011-12-21T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T09:59:33","slug":"day-4-coir-village-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/day-4-coir-village-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 Coir Village Resort &#8211; 21st Dec 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 starts early on the houseboat moored just down from Thakazhy Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>A lovely bright morning in contrast to the overcast last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>We travelled through the backwaters at a very leisurely pace to make the Coir Village Resort at just before 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-170152.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-170152.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-170152.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124334.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124334.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124334.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124610.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124610.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124610.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124515.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124515.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124515.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124529.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124529.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124529.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124637.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124637.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124637.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124621.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124621.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124621.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a welcome fresh grape juice we were shown to our rooms. Very nice villas alongside side the water. The villas all look out onto the water as they are on a small island in the river.<\/p>\n<p>After not too long Tim, Alex and Tom swim after Tom slips and falls in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124710.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124710.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malcolm spots an eagle in tree and both he and I try and get a photo. \u00a0Not that successfully!<\/p>\n<p>We all troop back across the river in the little boat punted by the hotel staff for lunch @ 1.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch we have a trip to see coir rope making in the village next to the hotel only a very short walk away. Libby, Ellie, Tim and I have a go. \u00a0It is harder than it looks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124353.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124353.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124353.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124410.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124410.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124410.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124426.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124426.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124426.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124725.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124725.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124725.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then went onto to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannarasala.org\/\">Mannarshala Snake temple<\/a> by rickshaw approx 30 mins each way. \u00a0This was a big complex all owned by 1 family. No cameras were allowed. \u00a0Interesting\u00a0enough\u00a0it has women priests. \u00a0You can read much more about it in the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124502.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" style=\"border-color:initial;border-style:initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124502.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124502.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124745.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" style=\"border-color:initial;border-style:initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124745.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124745.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" style=\"border-color:initial;border-style:initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124808.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124808.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124756.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" style=\"border-color:initial;border-style:initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelnaylor.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111223-124756.jpg\" alt=\"20111223-124756.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are all back by 6.30 after buying stars on the way at local shop and after pottering about for a while cross back to have dinner @ 8.<\/p>\n<p>The adults all played UNO afterwards with Eugine. \u00a0Quite a few laughs while the kids all went back to Millie and Fiz&#8217;s villa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 starts early on the houseboat moored just down from Thakazhy Bridge. A lovely bright morning in contrast to the overcast last 24 hours. We travelled through the backwaters at a very leisurely pace to make the Coir Village Resort at just before 12. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 After a welcome fresh grape juice we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/day-4-coir-village-resort\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 4 Coir Village Resort &#8211; 21st Dec 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-kerala-xmas-2011-new-year-2012","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenaylors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}