With our trip to Kerala in January 2027 now fully booked (please contact us if you’d like to join our mailing list for Kerala ’28), travellers may like to watch this: a first episode of the BBC’s Real Exotic Marigold hotel. The series followed celebrity ‘retirees’ as they experimented with retirement in Fort Cochi, a town where we begin our tour.

Whilst ordinary tour groups stay outside old Fort Cochi, with Angel you’ll be in the thick of it and just around the corner from where the likes of Lionel Blair, Myriam Stopard, Denis Taylor and Paul Nicholus stayed.

Here it is, warts and all: