01/05/2026
Some places don’t just change your holiday. They change your life. 🌊
Soul and Surf Kerala, I heard yesterday that you’ve closed your doors, and I’ve been sitting with that news ever since, feeling the weight of it in my chest.
That clifftop in Varkala wasn’t just a place I worked. It was the place where everything shifted. Where I went from the person I was, to the person I was becoming. Where the Arabian Sea called me in for the very first time and I stood on a surfboard, wobbly and laughing and completely alive. Where frangipani hung in the air and sunsets felt like they were made specifically for the people gathered there.
It’s where I met Patrick. 🤍
How extraordinary, that a place can hold so much. A job that became a calling. Friendships that became family. A love that became home.
To the Soul and Surf team, the guests who became lifelong friends, the waves, the morning chai, the rooftop shala, the pink Ambassador, the magic that was somehow always in the air! thank you. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart.
Some chapters close. But what began there, the surfing, the love, the wild and wonderful turning of my life, that lives on.
Rest gently, beautiful place. You gave me everything. 🌿🌊