Fort Cochin, India
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Here we are in beautiful Fort Cochin, an old Portuguese/Dutch/British colonial town on an island off the mainland of Kerala. A lovely town with plenty of old buildings and churches. In fact the oldest Catholic church in India is here (St Francis) which the Dutch changed over to a protestant church when they landed in the late 1600s. Vasco de Gama first came here in the early 1500s and eventually died here in 1524. We are staying at the old Portu...