Resorte de Tio Carmino Calangute

... go back a little. Thursday I was in the pool and heard this beautiful bird song and looked up and was just really smiling and look down and all the way across the pool there is a classmate--a remarkable Indian woman with amazing eyes big and wideset. She is smiling at me and I can feel this positive feeling from her all the way across the pool. She looks up as another bird sings and is laughing and looks back at me and holds her hands ...

... how dirty it was until I got here. I've not seen a rat, an open sewer or any garbage for 2 whole days! There is constant running water in our beach hut (the water in the Bandra appartment has all but given up) and at night it is cold enough to sleep under TWO blankets. The other thing I have realised is that there is a danger when you work with kids that you may end up not wanting any of your own! I've noticed this a lot, but when ...

... as our dive and chilled out for the night. The next day, more refreshed, we had a better outlook on things and set out to enjoy the day. After meeting up with Gordon (a friend we had made in China) we preceded to get drunk while we people watched by the beach, then headed to a local resteraunt where we tried our first Thali (big plate, loads of little dishes) which in our drunken state got the thumbs up, especially when it only cost £1 each ...

... Harry (check my Facebook photos) and I hired mopeds for the day and went to a beach called Angonda and also Patnem. Whist at Angonda we saw what were quite easily the biggest waves on the trip. We were just body surfing (recently taught by BAD - see above) and one monster wave dumped Martin on the sea floor leaving him groaning and bleeding. He is sporting a great war wound today around his eye and head. He still looks like Harry but the Harry ...

... Old Portuguese houses. All along the way you can see the Portuguese houses and each one is only one of its kinds. Goa became world famous for its trance parties and until recently was a Mecca for partygoers worldwide. The greed of police and local mafia has ensured the downfall of trance partiers in nature though and nowadays the parties resemble more discos. But there are still plenty of people dancing away on LSD. Many just choose to chill out in the ambience ...

... and Chinese food, and got one hell of a tan, is that when they go back home, they get to say to their friends, "I went to India!" Very authentic... That would be like going only to Las Vegas in the US and saying how crazy America is... One more thing to point out, Europeans and their lack of inhibitions is both the coolest thing ever and the nastiest, most wrong thing ever. I cannot tell a lie, during my miles-long walk along the beach I couldn ...

... apparently it's 1000 rupees and you go out on a boat and if you don't see any dolphins you don't pay. I think that would be an amazing experience, so I'm excited to try that. So I'll be in Goa till the 29th and then off to Kashmir for a couple weeks, I'm then coming back to Goa and at that point I'll probably head south to Kerala. Kerala is supposed to be more natural and less touristy. I'm going to start to take a lot more pictures and will have them up here soon.

... expert' and knows the difference between a four, a six, a wicket and a wide! During our time at Maggie's we also visited the 'English Bar' one night for bingo which was... an experience! A load of leather-skinned Northerners telling us how they loved the Indian way of life as they sat there drinking lager, eating bangers n mash and playing bingo! Not a completely wasted night though as Charlie ended up winning about 700 rupees! We ...

... it was - the mile and half of beautiful beach madness. Phewwwwwww. The white beach surrounded by palm trees was heaving with beach shack bars pumping all kinds of Dance music out with people relaxing, meditating, sun bathing or dancing. All kinds of people, some very very weird inhabit the beach during the day. Beware of 50 year old Europeans (germans mostly, wearing G-strings). After that, the days, especially up until boxing day are very much a blur due to all the drinking ...

... Spotoma se ustavimo, da bi prevzeli naroceno majico, a je trgovina zaprta. Muslimani stavkajo, ker jim je nekdo razdejal mosejo. Damir ostane brez majice in stotih rupij pologa. Mu je ze majckeno manj zal zaradi moseje. Vlak za Keralo pride precej tocno, le kaki 2 uri prepozno. Med cakanjem nahraniva klatesko kuziko, nato pa se zlekneva v posteljo v razredu 3AC.