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Welcome to India
After waving goodbye to Doha, we began the next leg of our journey to Goa, India.
The flight was much shorter than we had expected and we landed in Goa at 3am. After a rather long immigration queue, we grabbed our bags and headed outside. We had accommodation booked but did know how we were getting there! We decided to stand outside and …
Start of the week with snakes...
... Really busy modern bar in the middle of the strip. Really chilled night until the chef comes out the side of the bar on his moped going mad. Pointing and shouting at his moped....looked wired. Reggie said what's he doing. We went out the bar only for the chef to lift the seat of his moped and a king cobra had got in the helmet compartment for the warmth of the engine. I hate snakes so I had gone ASAP ...
Lazy Sunday
... in the afternoon a large group of boys from a local orphanage came down to the beach to play in the sea and Annabelle spent some time learning all about the charity, later deciding that she would really like to sponsor one of the children when she got home and actually had some money.
After a busy day of doing not much we all sat out on the balcony ...
Delhi Belly Badness
... hilarious. I started to feel more human, although I was still pyrexial, tachycardic, and needed to be in close vicinity to a toilet at all times. At some point in the afternoon (once Vaila had made sufficient use of the free internet access) she informed me that she had playing cards with her. A nice idea in theory, but we soon realized that the only non-alcohol related card game we knew was ''snap'' and since I was cannulated in both hands, I thought that ...
Weeks 8,9 & 10 - Goodbye Goa....Hello Mumbai!!
... Arambol in the far north and Palolem in the far south....crystal clear beaches and some good shacks to stay at and unwind!!
Ive met lots of amazing people too and we've had some good times sinking a few kingfishers and whiskys by the sea......you all know who you are!!
Going forwards, Im in mumbai for a few weeks and then off to Delhi, Agra, Varanasi after which Ill have to come back to Blighty!!
See y'all soon!
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- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Fitness/Health center
- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility