Maria Rosa Resort Calangute

... s being served, and to top it all off we were staying in the suite! This is not what I had in mind for my trip to India. After two days of walking around the town full of old tan men in speedos and old women tanning topless, I began to really dislike the way tourists are here. From what I read in the books everywhere it says: "Be modest, don't wear bikinis to draw attention to yourself, cover your legs". It seems every Indian rule just goes down the drain here. We are too ...

... and I gave her the photos which made her smile really big and you really can't get enough of smiles like that. For at least an hour all of them were sitting in groups or going and finding people to show their new photos to. So I took photos of them doing this. Then a while later one of the Seabird girls came and asked me to take photos of them without smiling. "Too much smiling" she said. I found this to be a little ...

... Bronchitus, before prescribing me no less than six separate drugs. Antibiotics, something to offset the antibiotics because they are so strong, asthema tablets, anti-allergy tablets and something else which I refuse to take! This little cocktail fo drugs knocked me sideways so much that when I got up during the night to go to the loo, I fell asleep on it. TWICE! The next day, Rhian arrived and I went to meet her at the airport. It was ...

... biggest impression on me, I could hardly breathe because of the smog. Udaipur After being shaken and stirred during an almost 20 hour bus trip my lungs and I were happy to arrive in Udaipur, a city famous for it's lake palace and the fact that the Bond movie Octopussy was filmed there. I absolutely loved the place, the city is gorgeous and the people were really nice. We also rented some mountainbikes ...

... beach shack called Concys invited me in for a ice cold Kingfisher to watch sunset. It would have been rude to say no and as I am an ambassador for the UK I accepted immediately. 660ml beer for 75p. I really like it here. The sunsets are amazing and the food is tremendous. Later Das the owner discovers that I can play pool and we are off at a pace along the beach to his mates bar to play. Das is the Goan pool champion although I suspect you might not ...

... couple of beers... my only saving grace was that the Indian bartender was in as much pain about it as I was, but he had to smile about it and keep loading ****** songs...). We wound up going to some lounge on the main drag, checking things out, chatting and so on. I am not a crazy, going out to trance parties in the woods kind of guy, so I called it a night, and we made plans to meet at the coffee shop the next day ...

... one of my favorite places is the Plaintain Leaf which has some amazing dishes. After dinner I either venture around the town a bit or go back and play some backgammon with one of my local friends that I met Raj. I'm actually going to Kashmir with Raj on the 29th for 2 weeks. He's heading back home to visit his parents and asked me I wanted to come. His parents live in Srinagar on a houseboat on the dal lake. So I am SUPER excited about that, where taking a ...

... as a store room as it housed tins of paint and various other DIY necessities (right up my street, I could have given a quick makeover while I was there...). In its favour it did have quite a clean floor. I was awake until 4am trying to kill mosquitoes (it was them or me) until I realized the windowless window in the 'bathroom' rendered my attempts futile. I was up at 6.30am and out by 7am, very much battle scarred but alive. I had a quick look around and decided Palolem wasn ...

... heb je het wel gezien. In Goa vliegt de tijd. Je kunt er echt je dagen verprutsen met eten, drinken en op het strand liggen en als dat te warm wordt, ga je wat cruizen op de scooter. We waren er met een bende van 7 Belgen (en 1 gekke Brit), dus we hebben heel veel plezier gemaakt. Voor we het te goed beseften, waren er 2,5 weken voorbij en was het tijd om te vertrekken naar het Zuiden, waar het nog warmer was.

... eating a meal. I was also down to 73 kilos. I had not been this weight since Lucy met me. Next, the nurses attempted to put a drip into me. They missed the first time and painfully got it right the second time. Being allergic to needles, they started taking blood and injecting **** into me like there was no tomorrow, and then they left me alone. Day two, and they told me that I did not have Hepatitis A. So they took some ...