Kerala is second home for 90-year-old UK citizen Daphne Clara Richards, a solo woman traveller who arrived in Kochi on Tuesday on her 31 st visit.
A hard-core lover of the State and its people, she has been spending over a month each year in the State since 2002, residing mostly at a popular resort located off Marari beach. Showing no signs of jet lag, even after taking two flights for an 11-hour trip to Kochi, she spoke elaborately of how she developed a fondness for Kerala, since it is “very different” from the UK.
Ms. Richards spoke at length on how she had always been fascinated by India, particularly Kerala, ever since her brother visited India over seven decades ago and his girl friend from the country pursued college in the UK. “She later went on to marry an officer from the Indian Army. We kept in touch and used to read a lot about the country,” she said.
