hey hey ! im back in mumbai!!

we did end up gettin scooters, well, i was too scared cos of the roads and the drivers,and karen had an accident, &on the way to the hotel, i saw a man who had fallen off his scooter,dunno if he crashed, but he was lyin dead in the midd of the rd!!goosepimply stuff!the guy sittin nx2me on the bus sed that he saw that so much i sth america, so he wasnt reali fazed by it!!i gues at least im preparin myself!

anyhow,we rode for2hours, me on thew back, at first, a slightly nervous wreck, but i got used to it! russ and soph had ridden down from colva to see us an we followed them back up.we got pulled over by the police....v.corrupt! they wanted a licence, torq or russ didnt have, so they asked for R1000, but torq sed he ony had R400 and russ sed he ony had R40, so he got off scot free, but on the way down got fined for sppedin and not havin a licenceR3000. but he ony hadR500! me&soph jus waited on the side!

thr beach, colva wasnt as nice as ours.thr wer mor slums and u had to walk thru dirty dirty sand to get to the beach and a kinda forest with many mor dogs!!thr was paragliding for $5, but the queue was loooooooooong and no1 cud b botherd2do it with me!i had soo many lassis in goa!delicious!we stayed in thr apartment for 2nyts! and on the 2nd, i got drunk for the first tym since arivin in india! i dint even drink much! ...litew8!!haha! i had pinacolada,,port, vodka(thy dnt measurre shots!!!!)and old monk whisky!we went to a nite club(R150 and R125 2spend on drinx).it was all american commercial music an a bit of hindi songs from films! then we went to the beach and met a cupla indian guys who we sat with and hada laff with, but one of them grabbed me and i pushed and hit him, but he jus lafft at me! then russ hada go at them and we left and all conkt out in russ&sophs.

cnt remba if i sed we met an italian chic on the coach down thr who was r neighbour.her names elena and she was 38, but looked about30! .....musta bin the olivio!!haha!nice lady!we had dina&lunch with her.

in arambol i got3pairs of aladin pants! like princess jasmine!yelo, pink&blue!i luv em! no fear of mossies and not 2 hot!!altho, i hav found a bite on my thi2dy!i also got a lil drum&sat in the shop wile the man taught me a few things, but im not v.gud........yet!we also met this german girl cald micchy whos a hippy &has OTT hairy armpits!and no shoes! but shes sucha hapi soul! she tort me poi and contact juggling on the beach.me, torq,russ,soph,elena&micchy went to anjuna at around11pm for curlies partyu, but by the time we arrived, the police had already closedf it down!! wed paid the driva R1000 to drive is half hour thr, wait for us for a cupla hrs and thn drive us bk again.we stayed thr for a bit chattin to lotsa old hippies from england,essex who hav setup bizneses the an liv thr now!

we arrived bk in mumbai ths morn by sleeper train! wata nitemare!!! 'sleeeeeeper'!!!u dont get to sleep! i timed it that within 5mins, guys walked past ur bed 5times shouting :CHAI!COFFEE!CHAI!!!! omg! it drove me mad!!! id ratha travel by coach!at least its warmer, quieta and ur stuff is packed in the boot, ur not constantly paranoid about ppl takin ur stuff!and the staring! i got quite irritated by the end and jus cudnt sleep, so i ended up gettin a chai!!! i fink thats thr trickk!!!aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh!!!

weve checked bk in to r same hotel now and will pick kim up2mr and try2 get her in to a bollywood movie, thennnn head to delhi, aggra and sth nepal for sum meditation.well, thats the plan!

spk again sn!!

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