Today we decided to go to a bigger town than the local one, Baga, to buy some bits we couldn't get elsewhere. Hoping for a USB modem we went around various shops but the only prepaid non contract one we could find wasn't available until October. We found a very cheap clothes shop and I got Vincent a pair of shorts, Billabong white not black ones (!), and two vest tops one blue one grey, still not black (!!) He looks very good in them too, maybe photos will follow...

Now in our new room we decided that we would try cleaning it. Seems an odd idea but we figured that if we could make our room look nice then getting the head of housekeeping job for Nicole would be easy. I had been told the housekeepers spoke English, the didn't. The lady we spoke to seemed to shrink when I spoke to here. She plainly wanted to help but had no idea what I wanted. I asked for cloths and bleach in as many ways as I could. After a while a second pers...

We didn't get much sleep last night as the office next door had its phone ringing and TV blasting til late then again from 5am! I think we might move rooms. We met with Ivor and the boss, whose name is Dinky! Basically they don't have much of a plan or much of an idea what Europeans would like of a hotel. We will be given a pretty free reign so I hope to teach their house keeping how to clean and Vincent hopes to make the shabby bar/restaurant nice. We decided we...

Goa. Today we got on our very short haul flight, just time for them to serve lunch and stuff it down before we were landing! I managed to find Salman Rushtie's 'Midnights Children' at the airport which I have been looking for since we arrived. I was going to buy it in England to read over here where its set but as he was chucked out of the country I wasn't sure it would be a good thing to have in my bag - turns out they have most of his books here. We made friend...

Due to the ankle today I mostly sat on the bed with my foot on pillows. We phoned Ivor to see how the train tickets were coming along but he didn't even seem to know he was meant to e getting them! We decided to be proactive and went online to buy the tickets ourselves. After a bit of consideration we decided that although the flights were more expensive 1 hour on the plane was better than 13 on the sleeper train.We did our packing and sorted out the bills for ho...