{"id":1642,"date":"2013-02-10T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsplash.com\/yogaslice\/2013\/02\/10\/on-mg-road-ernakulam-kerala\/"},"modified":"2013-02-10T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T08:10:00","slug":"on-mg-road-ernakulam-kerala-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsplash.com\/earthsplash\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/on-mg-road-ernakulam-kerala-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On MG Road, Ernakulam Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-aVF5K6GQR-k\/URdVuWXd3-I\/AAAAAAAAASs\/SloXehtSVmI\/s775\/Photo%2525202013-02-06%25252010%25253A24%252520AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1360483843478.5623\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-aVF5K6GQR-k\/URdVuWXd3-I\/AAAAAAAAASs\/SloXehtSVmI\/s500\/Photo%2525202013-02-06%25252010%25253A24%252520AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a 4 hour delay on Thursday night, I&#8217;m finally in Kerala on Saturday morning. The Int&#8217;l hotel upgraded me to their executive room. Wish I had that luck on any of the 3 planes I got here with. After a 3 hr nap to make up for about 30 hrs of no sleep, I went to discover Mahatma Gandhi Road and started thawing. Not in the\u00a0metaphoric way but literally sweating buckets! Nothing much else here to do so I plan on heading to the ashram in the morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-UlVdY4V32pI\/URdVh-UfRYI\/AAAAAAAAASk\/yPS8r4ZDTT8\/s1024\/Photo%2525202013-02-08%25252011%25253A18%252520PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1360483843477.0747\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-UlVdY4V32pI\/URdVh-UfRYI\/AAAAAAAAASk\/yPS8r4ZDTT8\/s500\/Photo%2525202013-02-08%25252011%25253A18%252520PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Found a small vegetarian restaurant and had vegetable biryani, which was really pretty much a rice dish but extra yummy! \u00a0Wish I took note of the name and address of this restaurant!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Hcyx3I8SVy0\/URdV4eLuFCI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/ngLxPGSdyYI\/s1024\/Photo%2525202013-02-09%2525202%25253A15%252520PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1360483843531.7847\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Hcyx3I8SVy0\/URdV4eLuFCI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/ngLxPGSdyYI\/s500\/Photo%2525202013-02-09%2525202%25253A15%252520PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>See the pic of the wooden massage table? Better yet, see the cloth atop? That&#8217;s the &#8220;dress&#8221; I had to wear today for my very first Ayurvedic massage. It can&#8217;t be a loin cloth and it barely covered the groins. For what it looks like and how it works, it&#8217;s now known as the uterus-cover! Hahaha! Either way, the experience was awkward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-zmR8ACh6o3o\/URdWA89RdLI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/8pMK1KAYrco\/s1024\/Photo%2525202013-02-09%2525209%25253A33%252520PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1360483843492.36\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-zmR8ACh6o3o\/URdWA89RdLI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/8pMK1KAYrco\/s500\/Photo%2525202013-02-09%2525209%25253A33%252520PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"blogsy_footer\" style=\"text-align: right;font-size: small;clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 4 hour delay on Thursday night, I&#8217;m finally in Kerala on Saturday morning. 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