My Life Part 3

Four weeks after I returned home to Glasgow an Indian friend asked me to come to Kerala South India to photograph the baptism of her baby boy Albin. I jumped at the chance. The house I was staying in had across the road a disused quarry filled with water. This was heaven as the weather was very hot 33ºc it is approximately half a mile long. I would swim the whole length and back, to the amazement of people living here. Kerala is a fantastic place with banana’s and all sorts of fruits growing. The people are exceptionally friendly I could hardly pass a house without being invited to come in and have a cool drink, fruit to eat.

One day I said to my friend I wish I could go home with a Kerala wife; it may be possible my friend said. The next day I was introduced a marriage broker and asked what my expectations were I said I would not want dowry, no smokers and no drinkers. Four ladies were found for me to interview. After seeing the first lady I liked her, this was Ruby, I did not want to see anyone else. I took Ruby to her parish priest to make sure she was not being forced in to marriage and understood living in the UK. Is very different from living in India, In front of the priest she said “she was not being forced into marriage and she understood her life would change living in the UK.  So 7th July 2007 Ruby and I got married in India. After our marriage we flew to London to a temperature of -3ºc This was Ruby first experience cold weather, and we had to wait half an hour for a taxi poor Ruby was shivering like a jelly and she was sick.
See my wedding Blog
www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/blog-148118.html