Enjoyed four days on the beaches in Goa, discovered that we can afford the better hotels without cramping our budget. Colva was a bit of a mess, but Paolem was what you would expect of Goa. The people there break down into four catagories:
1) Hippy wanabees - generally tall, thin, tanned, beautiful and shallow.
2) Refugees from the costas - Know them by there Arsnel shirts.
3) Empty nester travellers - delight in telling you where you're goin wrong and wont shut up.
4) The locals - They always want to tell you about cheap rooms in good hotels and offer you sight seeing tours in their rickshaws at incredible rates - right!
Then follows ...
a long train journey, six hours on wooden seats and not a privey this side of Mangalore! Apparently train journeys in India are the real adventure... that's one word for it.
Mangalore is a confusing mess of a city, we end up stuck there for two days while we sort out onward travel.
Three nights in Bangalore, but I've not managed to sell Dave into IT slavery with a local firm. We narrowly missed the "now we go to my brothers shop" scam from the tuktuk driver who took us to the local temple. After 15 mins of argument and a considerable bribe I managed to get him to return us to the hotel. Props to Bald Mat and Ade for putting us wise on that one.
Karnataka, the state that Bangalore is in is currently in dispute with it's neighbour Tamil Nadu regarding water rights. To this end there is a general strike happening. We were unable to get a train or bus south today and it will be the same tomorrow. Because of this we've got a flight to Trivandrum tomorrow morning. 35 pounds and no 17 hour train journey, there's only so much advanture a boy can take!
We've become honory locals at a pub round the corner from the hotel in the Mahatma Ghandi road area. It's a great place if you can stand the Bhangara Techno being played at full voulume all the time.
Still no pictures I'm afraid, it may have to wait till we hit Oz before I can replace the forgotten lead for my camera! What a plonker...
Two days
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Sounds like you are having a whale of a time dude. Shame we are stuck here doing Plexus. Enjoy and look forward to your next blog.
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