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We're now in goa! After a long overnight train from mumbai we reached goa on Sunday and have enjoyed the place a lot. The train was a little eventful as we were looking for our names on the charts and couldn't find them so we jumped on a carriage and found an empty 'cabin' to bunk down for the night; big mistake! After making the beds and turning the ights off an entire indian family ripped open the curtain and started weilding an enormous samsonite case round like it was some kind of WMD! Clearly we were in the wrong but put on our best 'we're white and dont know what we're doing' faces. Turns out we were on the waiting list and didnt actually have a booking. We thought we were gonna get turfed out onto the tracks like the lil kids of slumdog millionaire! Alas we manged to get a couple 'beds' but lis got stuck with a random indian family that played snake on their mobie all night long.
Got to goa and the hotel was amazing, proper gated resort with pool etc. So much for 'slumming' it round india. Think we're gonna have to hit pure ghetto places after this to stay in budget! Goa is nice though. Lots of beaches and 'travellers' who seem to think it's cool to swim in their underpants. Went to a flea market and bought loads of beads etc. Saw an elephant also which was cool. Have to barter for everything and have randomly had indian poeple ask for us to be in their photographs despite not knowing the people at all! Just feel like the paps back home so kinda used to it. We head off to happy hampi on Sunday and will hopefully have a less eventful train journey this time. Hope everyone is well! Watch this space for some photos soon... x
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