Kollam or Quilon, Alleppuza or Alleppy?

Kollam, 15-11-1994. We left Kovalam early today nearly getting into a fight over breakfast with Terry and his friends. Staying easy and relaxed and looking them straight into the face over the breakfast tables that seperated us, they chickened out. Anyway they were probably all carrying Kerala grass which can only get shitty when the local constabulary gets involved. A train got us from Trivandrum to Kollam. The last time I was here they called this town Quilon but apperently it is Kollam now, well, whatever....We took an obscure hotel downtown near the bus station with walls full with peep holes - we are in India after all! - and bought our tickets for the backwater ferry to Alleppuza - the last time I was here Allepuza was called Alleppy but who cares?