hello!

sorry, if you have texted me at some point but for some reason my virgin sim card isn’t working or getting any signel although flo’s contract is working fine.

 just spent the last few days in palolem. very nice. much better then benoulem. planning to come back here with lucy, a more gentle intro to india methinks. going to the contraversial gokarn tomorrow to check it out. then onwards to kerela were there is exotic dancing to be had. time seems to be nipping past rather quickly as the days are filled to the brim with eating and relaxing by the sea. flo and i went for a stroll along the left hand side of the beach yesterday and finding ourselves at the end decided to clamber over the boulders that abutted the sea and continue our route to the other bay. much fun and reminiscent of our respective childhood scamperings.

in one of the rockpools inbetween the rocks i spotted what looked like a perticulaly wierd bit of seaweed. on closer examination it was a sea slug! i plucked it from the pool dispit its efforts to twitch away. realy odd creature. like a sock filled with liquid, it wibbled in my hands like a water baloon, every now and then ejecting water in confusion. rather neat.

have yet to be seriously ill yet. this may have something to do with the insane amount of health giving pilules and whatnot we are ingesting everyday. food so far is very hit and miss. the best was in mumbai. need to be a bit more careful with the food here as the electricity keeps on cutting out all over palolem. some of the bars bbq fresh caught fish, and last night i had calamari which was very tasty.

christine seemed to remember you mama, though didn’t mention much fish gutting. 🙂

 people in goa seem remarkably friendly, hopefully this is true for the rest of india.

will blog from gokarn next.

julio