So if you are wondering about the lack of updates the reason is that choosing between blogging and reading hasn’t been taxing! We are in Palolem in southern Goa and the beach is terrific, I have a video of it but the internet here is as slow as the pace of life so that will have to wait.

We’ve been lazing around since we arrived in fact the most exciting event of the last few days has been today’s cricket match so that shows how unexciting everything else has been!  That said Leishia did meet some of the locals last night on our way to dinner:

which was terrific, prawns and crab:

and by the time we left the tide was in so the last few steps on to the beach were fun:

This morning we met a few more locals:

and chanced upon probably the best house in the village:

(The swastika is very common here as a Hindu symbol of good luck, rather than what it came to represent after the Austrian corporal hijacked it in the Summer of 1920). 

I spent the rest of the day watching India beat Australia to win the series 3-2 which the locals took as a Diwali gift. Fantastic match. Leishia had chai and cake, that girl knows how to spoil herself!

The chai and cake girl is insisting that I put something in this blog about me losing our room keys on the beach – so now I have!

Oh, and my questionable boat trip negotiating skills.

But I’m not going to say anything about her paying ten times more than she thought for my new shirt. Those pesky decimal points. Not such a bargain after all then!