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OK so this is the previous entry ...Goa which i spent half an hour doing before then lost.....lets see what I can remember .....Oh yes beautiful beautiful Goa...just like a page from National Geographic at every turn ...coconut palms, beach waves, sunsets, cows with horns on beach sunbathing or strolling ..just like the local people and tourists...not many of them ratio of around 1 to 5 local to tourist...not Indians on holiday ..just local people going about their daily lives........playful dogs..having great fun rough and tumble on the beach ..then altogether...quiet...they head off alone and attach themselves to someone on the beach...the man doing yoga, the couple sunbathing and me reading my book..beside yet apart...quiet gentle companionship.
The old man , possibly same age as us?..are we old?...cetainly oldest on this group ..but another group two 75yr olds doing it...so lots of trips to come!.....shimms up the tree to get a coconut for Bob and I...this insisted upon by her daughter who says ' you want coconut...OK wait ..I get'...which means she drags her father from whaterver he's doing to climb up the tree ..again just as you can imagine barefeet on the truck bent knees and pulling up on his arms ..and he's up there chucking down the nuts ....big and green...which he then attacks with a machete taking a lid off to get at the milk ( coconut water)...lovelely ..and cool..we are then given a scoopie type piece of the husk to eat the soft milky flesh....60Indian Rupees ..80p or so ...which is a lot for here when dinner for two with drinks cost £3/4ish .....Serena ..the young entrepreneur..age ten can also 'arrange boat trip see many theengs buffalo, monkeee, butterfly. you ask'..or 'come to my shop'...passing her shop she says' come come what you want?' ...Bob says I want everything ' good come in I have everything'..and beautiful and charming with it...her shop is an open hut with shelves with mostly cigarettes and suncream....most of the shops are wooden shacks with tons of stuff..sweeties, water, toiletries nuts, lighters, other clotes...lovely cotton and indian flowing things ...havn't bought my trouser, dress and scarf outfit yet ..but I will...900rup ...£12 ish ...made to measure..really posh one with silver and mirror things on...i want a plainish cotton one.
..and toddy tapping....any guesses?....well done...tapping the coconut palm sap from the top of the tree collecting in a little bowl ...half a litre night and morning.
...and wild pigs with piglets scampering in the bushes...and tiny bright orange crabs in the mud by the river ..one huge claw waving
and beautiful beautiful women..always looking elegant in their sahris..even when washing clothes, carrying sand or piles of driftwood on their heads.
..and kids the world over running along rolling a tyre with a stick, and playing on the beach ...cricket ..what else?
OK so Im chilling now afte a very stressful stat ..we deyayed a week as Bob had a bad cold with fever/flu symtoms...concerned about ending up in quaantine ..so that was fine ...except having to pay 400 pounds..which I then had to fill in claim form for ..not straightforward..., then my computer broke and had to go back to the shop ..Currys ..but they wouldnt give me a new one!..had to be seen by an engineer...and I'm leaving tomorrow...I think the manager had some discretion but choose to goby the book ..not happy ..had to buy a new compute ..as you no I've been geering up for all this tech stuff fo months...another 300....so we may come back early ..just have to see how the finances go...anyway ..then problem with not one but two of my bank cads..which I will be relying on ...so frantic phonecalls to baning call centres fom London hotel room...thats after we had to get a taxi to anothe Premier Inn cos we'd taken the bus to the wrong one!...so watch out in Heathrow that you go ot the right one!...and both said no problem with cards ..and must have been a co-incidence that on the same day AOL card sytem wasn't working ( cards efused so put a cheque in the post that morning..and when phoned banks ..both cards had been approved for the AOL bill...so I've paid it 6 times!!!..cos I said to AOL ..try again their should be no problem!)...anyway ..will need to follow that up sometine out here..but no time as yet..so checked card in machines ..where I had to pay $1.50 to get cash ( I'll just use $ for now to mean pounds) time 2....then I lost my camera day one ..in Mumbai...left in hotel taxi I think...phoned but no joy ...but I'm almost but not quite over that now...but really really miss having a camera of my own ..have Bobs so thats good and will try to download photos to post next time...I'll try to get a cheap one in Bangkok.
So ...I'll catch up hopefully on next Blog with the backwaters and tiger eseve ..as I have to go for an ayvederic massage...full body and head....$6ish.
lol ..lots of love ...what does that mean Moag ..when you txt lol?..anyway lots of love it means from me
Heather ( and Bob ...but you know he's not going to wite ..pity cos he'd be much better and funnier than me.)
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jayne Heather- I am exhausted just reading your latest post. The first part of your trip was a baptism of fire! But its a great read.
Lauri Hello! hope you're both having fun! your blog stressed me out tho..lol..from me means laugh out loud! miss you lots from the mitchells xx
caroline and barry you write great heather - sounds lovely and exotic and other worldly and i can see you both there chilly here love c and b
Big Cuz Hi little Cuz, Everything described so-far sounds par-for-the-course for you two, but hopefully the drama is all behind you. Loved the photos in your blog, Khoo and I had great fun inventing appropriate (and inappropriate) captions to go with each of them....especially the one of Bob being fitted in the ancient Indian manner for a bra. Paul.