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Dinner by the ocean


Often large trucks while backing up make beeping sounds to alert people around them that they are backing up. Here in India many personal cars employ this same technology. Rather than a beep they play music with the beeps. There is a car near our hotel that leaves very early in the morning and plays “It’s A Small World” at least three times through the entire song. I’m not sure where they are backing up from but there are no roads that long around here, I think they just like hearing it.

After a long night of Jungle partying Praj predicted a late start to our next day. We did however wake up bright and early to have another routine Goan day of eating, drinking, going to the beach and getting stung all over my body. We called our Dutch friends that night to see if they were interested in round number two but they had just woken up and were eating breakfast at 6pm. They were headed to Bombay the next day and needed to regain their strength.

On our way back from the beach to take showers and prepare for dinner a restaurateur approached us in an attempt to get us to come to his restaurant. We told him if he could provide us with fresh Alphonso Mangos, a Goan tradition, we would return and patronize his restaurant. “Are you sure you will come back? Many people say they will and they never do” We assured him that we would if he got us the Mangos. “My name is Singh, you can remember it because ‘Singh is King’”. We did return as promised and enjoyed a delightful dinner served with fresh mango for dessert while watching the sun set over the ocean.

This is supposed to be the worst time of the year in Goa and I have loved it. This is a wonderful place and I don’t want to leave, but there is still so much to see and experience that despite the desire to stay we are moving on. We leave Goa Tuesday night and head for Bombay on an overnight bus. I’m hoping for some more unique bus experiences but with a little less drama than the last time I rode on a bus.



Sunset View

With Singh the King

Mango Ecstasy

Sari Roof