This will just be a short blog entry as a response to a question my mother asked me on the phone yesterday - she would like to know what I think about India and what I have learned so far. Hmm that is actually a very difficult question to answer. I honestly feel that I will have to answer that question later - sorry mom - but presently I really do not feel that I have had a fair and varied overview of India - as mentioned Goa is a very lazy place and I can't rea...

I can't believe we only have one week left here in Colva - time really has flown by! It is quite relaxing and chilling to be here and I have been able to completely decouple my thoughts from my worries in Denmark - fantastic. But on the other hand it will still be nice to move on and see something different - can't wait to experience 'the real India'. Let's just say that Colva, and Goa in itself, is not a realistic representative for India. There is just too much...

Well, I better finish the dramatic story of our weekend - I left off telling you that some of my fellow travelers were most likely drugged - either somebody spiked their beers or as I mentioned something was in the hippie port wine. Fortunately the rest of us were in good shape and we made sure they had lots of water and convinced them it was time to go home and not go skinny-dipping. (Oh which Trine and I actually did earlier that night. Very funny. She was just...

Women in India: Well, women in India are discriminated in a number of ways even before they are born. It is not uncommon to see bill board posters with the text "Spend 500 rupees now, save 500000 later" advicing prospect parents to take a test in order to determine the sex of their child - if it is a girl maybe they should have an abortion instead! All the discrimination basically originates from the dowry (dansk: medgift) that the parents have to sup...

Presently I am sitting at an internet cafe in Palolem in Goa which is a vert beautiful beach located about an hours drive south of Colva. We arrived here on friday afternoon at 4 o'clock and started out by trying to find a place to stay. Keep in mind that over here it gets dark already at 6:30. But apparently we were here too early in the season as all the beach shacks were not done yet and those that were done were already booked as people were usually staying f...