Things have got much better over the last few days.
Perhaps I am starting to get used to it but baga was much more pleasant than arambol. More things were open, the little hotel was much better, and even though it continues to feel very run down......it was much more relaxed.
Have been sleeping, eating good food and doing lots of reading. The food is awesome and the spices taste so different from what they do at home.
I even managed to convince the life guards to let me swim.....so have been thrashing about in the arabian sea. there is lots of surf and the water is sooooooooo warm.
I am catching an overnight train to Ernakulam [in Kerala province] tonight. The trip should take about 16 hours and maybe another 2 hours afterward to get to Alappuzha. That is the jumping off point for exploring the Kerala backwaters and we will be arriving in time for the annual dragon boat racing!!!
I am really looking forward to this part of the trip, as it will include cruising and staying on a houseboat, a trip up into the western Gnat mountains to stay at the tea plantations and maybe a nature reserve before heading off the to sri meenakshi temple complex at Maduri.
WE have been filling in time today as the train doesn't leave until 11pm and spent some time in Old Goa. The highlight of which was an exhibition in the art museum that included "an accurate life size model of Jesus".....who had only one arm....only one finger on the hand that he did have....and best of all.......had bright ginger hair and beard.....priceless.
Be good and have fun
Perhaps I am starting to get used to it but baga was much more pleasant than arambol. More things were open, the little hotel was much better, and even though it continues to feel very run down......it was much more relaxed.
Have been sleeping, eating good food and doing lots of reading. The food is awesome and the spices taste so different from what they do at home.
I even managed to convince the life guards to let me swim.....so have been thrashing about in the arabian sea. there is lots of surf and the water is sooooooooo warm.
I am catching an overnight train to Ernakulam [in Kerala province] tonight. The trip should take about 16 hours and maybe another 2 hours afterward to get to Alappuzha. That is the jumping off point for exploring the Kerala backwaters and we will be arriving in time for the annual dragon boat racing!!!
I am really looking forward to this part of the trip, as it will include cruising and staying on a houseboat, a trip up into the western Gnat mountains to stay at the tea plantations and maybe a nature reserve before heading off the to sri meenakshi temple complex at Maduri.
WE have been filling in time today as the train doesn't leave until 11pm and spent some time in Old Goa. The highlight of which was an exhibition in the art museum that included "an accurate life size model of Jesus".....who had only one arm....only one finger on the hand that he did have....and best of all.......had bright ginger hair and beard.....priceless.
Be good and have fun
How did you scam the lifeguards into letting you swim? Sounds like shady Whangamata business.
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