Kingfisher Kick Back

Ha Bloody Ha... the Kingfisher strikes back with avengence !!

In Panjim now, much harder finding a Cybercafe in this place than in Touristville central, the beaches.
Spent last evening in the company of the Fijian-Indian-Kiwi blokes and 2 UK-Indian girls from Leicester on Vagator beach, along from Anjuna. Somehow ended up at a place called Prim Rose, for some food, altho the lads were strictly on the liquid refreshments. Come kick-off Chelsea vs Liverpool, a mob of Fans arrived to watch the game upstairs on large screen, so we joined in. Boring Game, but it ended in 90min or so, if you didn't catch it Chelsea won 2-0 and take away the League title. Anyway, Nick found the club associated with Prim Rose and it was superbly organised with seating, dancefloor and psychedelic lighting... just very few punters, so Baskin and Robbins icecream seemed a wiser choice. Shared a taxi back to Calangute with the UK girls only to find the power was off, and the boys at Shalom had already started on the bottle of Smirnoff for the night, so popped over to enjoy the moonset until power was restored.

Superb morning today, went for nice last walk along the beach before all the sun loungers get full of people and also got a 'Real coffee' from the Kaya Cafe... just along from our accomodation. It is owned by a Japanese woman and her Goan husband.. good freshly ground coffee, with a fantastic breakfast of fresh fruit (papaya, pineapple, strawberries and banana) with this terracotta pottle of fresh yoghurt, as well as eggs and toast on a plate made from leaves. Amazing presentation and undeniably the best breakfast I had in Goa.

Found Nick relishing in the after-effects of Kingfisher, and after a 'refreshing' beetroot juice he almost caused the rickshaw driver to have a panic attack as he puked red-purple on the side of the road. He is blaming the chicken toasted sandwiches from Room Service, but I never saw any of that or carrots either !!

Staying in Panjim on AB Road, there is no C or D.. we asked!. Went for a stroll and Nick picked himself up to do some shopping. Tis a good moto to buy now as you may not see it again. Have got a Family Supply of humungous cashew nuts, fingers crossed NZ MAF will let us in the country with them, or will be crazily eating them by the Amnesty box.

Just spent an hour on a 'Sunset Cruise'. Very popular with at least 4 Operators and plenty of 'tourists' mostly Indians from other places, but also a few white and other colours too. Very corny Entertainment director, who loved the sound of his own voice rather too much and seemed to be almost swallowing the microphone.

OK, so our Southern Indian adventure is almost over, just another Domestic flight and it has plenty to compete with and then the train ride homeward.

Ciao for now.
Maya