Laguna Anjuna

... eventually had a wander into the village. It's about 1.5kms to the village and another 0.5 kms to the beach. Had a nice walk thru the fields and found the village. So far a couple of restaurants, bars, stalls selling how shall we call it alternative hippy clothes, lots of cool dudes on their motorbikes. I think this place will be good....enough places to eat for a few days, nice place to stay and warmth (around 32 degrees.)
Now off to have some lunch and ...

... to go looking for some where else as we were all shattered from the bus ride so we just stayed for the night.

After a much needed shower and breakfast, we spent the next few hours lying on the beach and chilling out with Pip and Jess. The beach at Anjuna is nice, lots of coconut trees and really warm sea water, we couldn't believe how warm the water was. It was everything we needed after doing North India so quickly, just lying on the ...

... It was then that I noticed the huge wound on her back and we knew we had to phone the rescue centre. I stayed with her and we gave her some water, then Garry went to make the call, no reception on the beach. He finally managed to get through and help arrived.

Coco (we found out her name later on) was patient and seemed happy just to be with people, and got on the lead without fuss. We walked to the ...

... on holiday. It was probably the most intense beach experience I've had. The beach was filled with packs of roving Indian males leering at anyone in a bikini. Now, the leering I expected, and having to cover up on the beach is fine with me - but being repeatedly photographed and even videotaped while going in for a swim ...

... I informed him that I couldn't find the rest of my seatbelt. He informed me that he had recently taken out the rest of the seatbelts in the backseat. He didn't say why. I briefly entertained the notion of sitting in the front where the seatbelts were whole, but decided I would probably be best off as far away from the windshield as possible.
"I am driving fast," Nick repeats, and it becomes clear that it was a question ...

... mas ficamos razoavelmente secos. Por toda Goa a influencia Portuguesa esta sempre presente, na arquitectura e tambem nas gentes. Um dos grandes legados Portugueses deve ser o gost pelos copos! Ao contrario de outras partes da India, aqui e facil comprar bebidas alcoolicas, e muitos comecam a beber logo de manha... pelas 5 da tarde ja ha bastantes bebados junto as lojas de bebida a beira da estrada. Depois de estarmos quase completamente secos durante as 2 semanas ...

... on distance. So don't expect to much when going for such things. Since they are not interested in you and just pass you on distance. But it was anyway a really nice experience...not the least the wonderful sailing trip.

We took an internal flight from Delhi to Goa which turned out to be both cheap (30 quid) and very good quality for a budget airline. The plane wasn't full and took just over 2 hours to arrive in Goa. Goa is to be Tom's one week beach holiday before flying back to Dublin and his new job there. I'm not going to complain about chilling on the beach for a week either so this place is perfect. First stop ...

... to the Arabian Sea (some even with binoculars for a more intimate experience!); Indian families picnicking under the coconut palms amongst heaps of rubbish; a trashed English geezer shouting at the poor little nut seller for no reason; 'multi cuisine' restaurants where it's hard to find any Indian food ... the list goes on. If this was your only experience of Westerners, you would think they all had very untidy hair, smoked copious amounts of hash, were ...

... was a long drive, the last hour of which was up a mountain with 14 hair-pin bends. The altitude obviously affected Govinder, as he drove into the back of the car in front while pointing out a tea shack to us! No real damage done, except the driver of the other car was a Class A prick who called the police, an officious man with a moustache who threatened to impound the car and arrest Govinder unless we shelled out for the damage! Stayed the ...