India - Through Chris's Eyes

Thursday 25th March

We had decided the night before to get up early and take a walk a little further along the beach. Accompanied by a local dog that decided she would walk the whole way and back with us.

Just after an hour or so, the sun started to make walking very uncomfortable so we headed back for breakfast and laid under the sunshades for a few hours.

Along came Anand, a 13yr old boy from Karnataka selling Pineapples, which we brought to eat during the day. Anand was infatuated with cricket, as are most Indian people, and quickly had me supporting his state team in the IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Later on that night I'd even brought a Challengers Cricket shirt for 600 rupees. Unfortunately I didn't get to show it to Anand, as we were due to leave Goa early the following day.

Around 8pm we had dinner at the Waters Edge, which as it implies was literally at the waters Edge. Very nice and a lovely way to end our relaxing start in India.

(Now for the hard stuff!!)