An Alappuzha Achayan parks his vallam and walks into an Irish Pub on the banks of An tSionnain

I wanted to post about the flight and arrival in Ireland ,the extreme cold (imo) and landlord issues. But I've had too many things to catch up with and so will post about it "properly" later. For now, here's a partial summary of 15th to 17th ... ---------------- The power sockets here don't match my devices. so got adaptors from a shop nearby. Got internet and power after more than 24 hours. Phone and laptop batteries were dead. Ippozha onnu ushaar aayathu. I feel so homesick So cold I already hate it here dinner at 6:24 PM ☹️ ivade saippum madammayum okke 10PM inu orangum 😒 now my bad sleeping habits when adjusted by 5.5 hours suddenly makes me a gud boi 😀 I usually sleep at 3 AM in India. Here that is 9:30 PM 😛 Madamma Ammachie making some bland meals ... have to eat fast or it gets cold very soon at home even if it is not hot anymore we can eat or use the microwave. here it goes from hot to warm to cold to frozen in 10-15 minutes. I told a friend that I miss...

I finally - after trying to do so for over a week - finished packing all my stuff in my Ernakulam flat and moved to Alleppey / Alappuzha on Friday the 5th of March. I am still struggling with the inventory in Alappuzha. The final 20% of your packing takes up 80% of your time and effort. It's hard to decide what to leave and what to take with you. The flat I was staying in in Ernakulam belongs to my friends who are doctors abroad and they would be cool with anything I did. I could have taken anything I wanted or left anything behind. And yet I couldn't make up my mind in time. So I did what all great planners with OCD do in times of crisis … I just winged it. As the deadline for departure departed making a nice whoosh sound, I just piled everything left behind into the remaining bags without any discrimination, categorisation or sorting of any sort and dumped it all into the car. Not the most pleasant or orderly way to go about doing these things but sometimes thinking twice bef...