Riviera De Goa

If someone had said to us a few months ago that we had to sit on a hot train for 13 hours, I think neither of us would have particularly enjoyed that idea and would have probably come up with some way of getting round it! But seeing as it's the only way to travel around this huge country and to get anywhere in a decent amount of time, without flying of course, it was our only option. Mumbai at 5.30am in the morning is a completely different city to what it is in the day, because we ...

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... can find this mud in between the cracks of the rocks in the sweet river that flows into the lake further down. Pretty much every day there are people walking around the beach or past our porch covered in the drying mud. We chose to hike back to the lake and beach and swim off the mud to a beautiful sunset. On my last day in Arambol I woke up early and did some meditation on a nearby hilltop with Petra. We saw a dolphin do all kinds of jumps and tricks for us as if to say ...

... some nice people, almost all of them from Scandanavia. So I have been going for dinner with them and to the bar and am finally settling into a very lazy, very enjoyable routine. There isn't much to report in the way of action. Each day here has closely resembles the last. I fill my time mainly with reading, eating and socialising. Today my French neighbour absolutely schooled me in chess, just to mix things up a bit. I feel mildly guilty for delaying here. Goa has nothing ...

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... at 15:45 and not later in the evening. So we had very little time on us. We called Remi to tell him the news, but we found out that he had already packed everything as we had to leave the room at 10:00, and he was just resting in the common room at the hostel. So he arranged for a cab to pick him up and us on the way. Even if we didn't have much time we still wanted to visit Old Goa. And so we drove back north to the place and visit the Basilica Bom Jesus and saw the ...

... but how did I actually get here to this point." I think I sometimes disconnect with a part of me that is there but is a little afraid of its own abilities or passion or adventure. And if anything has changed or I hope does is that I can embrace that part of me a little more and use it to experience life more and to enjoy it more and care about other things a lot less. And to figure out a way to balance "real" life and "living ...

... of local fishing boats, sun lounges, 'cocohuts', packs of dogs and the inherent dog *****, sarong sellers etc. etc. The beach is so lined with 'temporary' accommodation (that each June is pulled down, as per licensing laws, then put back up next October) that it's surprising the crescent shaped beach doesn't collapse under the pressure! We landed at the same place we stayed last time and got a ...

... gonna be a slightly controversial mission cause it involved a stop off at the chicken shop..... Aforementioned Chicken apparently looked at Yuko one last time and blinked a blink of resignation. The sort of blink you do shortly before becoming "Butter Chicken" When I was introduced to this bird it was nicely segmented and warm and in a plastic bag........ no more blinking. Backyard Chicken, Dodge-the-bus-chicken,get outta-the-way chicken,,,,, Butter ...

... read in Apani Dhani's literature that they do not promote 'photo safaris' - this kind of stuck with me... I wasn't so fond of a bunch of strangers' cameras in my face at the Taj - why would they enjoy me sticking my camera in their face? So... I have a lot of photos of people's backs and masses of people (still very cool!) Back to the beach for this Spice Girl - I have a killer farmer's tan from all the 'modest, appropriate clothing' to deal with right now... :-) Shaunta