Alor Grande Holiday Resort Goa

... is amazing the water is so warm and the sand is goldne stretching round in a crescent with rocky outcrops at either end. So i was set, the travelling was worth it and it was time for a beer and some serious lazyness.

When i was walking down the beach i heard some decent beatles music and popped in, typical brit had walked into the bar called "The Pub". Even more typical i randomly bumped into Chris and Emma, also from Engalnd, who i did the camel trek with ...

... been taking it easy, it should cool down in nov hopefully for a few months to the more tolerable temperatures of mid 20'sc.
shane and sarah left this morning for 3 days to morjim, it's about 45min north of baga, robert has a friend there that has some beach huts. it's very quiet there, it's a very small village and lot's of people go there for some quiet time. so they will be there till sunday then come back to baga for ...

... are not modernizing their craft — they are dying off and being replaced by an entirely different crowd; by those who are trained in four-walled institutions, who buy their ready-made fiberglass and metal boats from the Mangalore shipyards, and who order their fishing nets from Mumbai. The fisheries industry has replaced the fishermen’s craft. It is a foreign layer laid upon local tradition, economically smothering and ...

... maker freeware mehandi disgine photo galleries of antique television and tv antennas rokets kit ...

... It was one of those things that just fell into place... my friend Petra ran into me on the beach and the next thing I knew I rounded up a few people and we took a cab over to a nearby beach. There was a major difference in the town the course was at and ours- mainly nicer hotels/guest houses and virtually no tourist shops. We had to take a small hike, crossing over a fun zigzag bridge, to get to the domed, round,candle-lit room. For the first half of the 2 ½ hour class the ...

... succumbed to some tropical disease in a house that still stands today. Eleven years in Hong Kong, and what does one come across in Cochin, other than the regular Portuguese fort, Dutch street names and British frippery? Huge, gargantuam, bizarre Chinese fishing nets. Contraptions of the strangest kind. Four or six 20m wide arms (laminated bits of wood and branches) carry a fine-meshed net strung and hung from the tips of the woody tentacles. The spiderlike device is in turn ...

... else to say... Oh, I managed to get a cold... Typical me in a warm place... 1 hour of air conditioning and I'm sick already! Oh well.. Could be worse. I recover under the palm trees today. India has been very good to me so far. I enjoy everything. I loev to think it is January and I am not FREEZING! Excuse the typos, the keyboard has seen better days.... More later (and yes, some pictures to come...)

Well I guess this may not be the longest trip to Goa if you are say flying from England or New Zealand, but when you pay a whole heap of money to fly to Goa from Kolkata you expect that it will take less that 12 or so hours! This is a warning for other travelers who may read this... it is not a cheap exercise to fly to Goa from anywhere other than Mumbai. It ...

We have planned all along to find a place in southern India for a couple months. Benaulim was the first place we checked out and we liked it...so this is where we are staying until the end of January. A fairly quiet small village with everything we need within walking distance.

... the morning, looking for something. I approached her and asked what she had been looking for and she replied 'her sunglasses'. So she and her partner traipsed all the way back to my little hut only to discover that the glasses I had found were not hers after all. Anyway we went for a drink together. They were Chinese, from Beijing and called Simon and Serena. We swapped tales. They had been in India for six weeks but flying home tomorrow. Simon had some real horror stories of their ...