L'Amour Beach Resort Benaulim

... hoped.
Wednesday 21st October. A late start to the day and we had breakfast at the restaurant nearby again and then wandered down to the beach along the road where ladies were drying loads of tiny fish and shrimp on long straw mats lining the roadside despite the masses of fish there was little foul smell surprisingly and as they lay in the same directions all the fish looked like they were swimming in the same direction along the road. At the beach the heat, humidity and haze ...

... As the naan bakes, Karate throws in a couple of tandoori spiced chickens, skewered on metal rods. The naan takes three minutes to cook, a chicken twenty.
The warm, calm Arabian Sea at our doorstep. Fishermen from the past and an endless supply of fresh, tasty Indian seafood. There's a whole lot of India we've yet to see. Ellen hasn't said a word, but she's got that 'Do we really have to leave?' look in her eye.

Due to the idiosyncrasies of the Indian rail service I had to return to Margao to book train tickets from Delhi to Gorakhpur – the gateway to Nepal for when Ally arrived. After 2 hours of queuing I finally had the tickets in my hand. Having a few days to kill before my flight back to Delhi I decided ...

... morceau, il n'y a pas de migale non plus (du moins pas pour l'instant), elle est donc rassuree. Les moustiques ne se sont quant a eux pas encore presentes. L'appart est bien grand, compose de deux grande chambres, une cuisine equipee, de deux salles de bain et du coin laverie. Ah j'oubliais la piece principale qui est immense!!! Les petits desagrement sont que l'eau n'est pas potable et que la vaiselle ainsi que le lavage de dents doivent se faire a l'eau de bouteilles ...

Jan 22- I walked back out to the main road and hopped on a bus to the city of Mapusa. In Mapusa I hopped on another bus to the beach town of Anjuna a little further south. I got out of the bus on the main road in the small town of Anjuna and I actually found a room with thick walls and a bathroom for 200 Rupees a night. In this room it felt a little strange not being able to see through the walls ...

I went to my first church service in along long time the other morning!...at 8.30am (early for me!) I went to a big church in Panjim and stayed for a bout 20 minutes of the service (I was right at the back so it was easy to escape when it got boring!) very strange.. it was an English language Catholic Sunday service with songs like no others I have heard (in english too) - they sounded like braodway songs, but anyway, much more interesting than your standard ...

... People were sitting all around the performance area against this wall with mats on the ground and open flames for light. One person was making omelets for sale. Last night we went to the Saturday night bizarre again. I need to relate the poo story but I need to go and meet with my german classmate again before he goes to bed because he has my bag with my cameras.

... takes up the whole road. Luckily no serious problems yet. I still haven't figured out intersections. How are your supposed to turn? And why don't the Indians ever pause before entering the road or turning into your lane at intersections? It's amazing the roadsides aren't strewn with crosses. Watching Brike and Prejudice last night with Jenny she made an interesting comment. In the scene early in the movie where there are some transvestites dancing ...