Today was going to be another day of chaos. At least the D'Mellos' were around this time so it wouldn't be so much like Christmas when the buck stopped with us. We ran around all day with Darielle trying to sell more tickets to people outside the resort, Vincent trying to get everyone's roles clear and me tying to make sure the guests we had were sorted out. Reception was chaos most of the day and we enlisted security to take tickets from people. Lancy was back a...

Today we spent most of the day working but met up with two English girls, Suzy and Gemma, who we made friends with a while ago when they stayed in our resort. We got them a half price room and spent the evening out for dinner and shopping. They had both had a great time in India but had bad stomachs for the last few days so we only ordered two meals between the four of us at Indian Spice, the restaurant where we met Mark and Michael by mistake at the beginning of...

Today we decided to do what most people our age do when they come to Goa - go to a rave! There was a dance festival on the beach in Candolim, a short bike ride away, that Mark invited us to - so off we went.It was pretty empty. Sadly with the bombs, economic downturn and everything else going on Goa has really had a hit with the tourist numbers this year. It was obvious they were prepared for a huge festival with proper security, fences, stalls, a token system fo...

The run up to Christmas was going to be crazy in any hotel but as we have no GM, except for Vincent who has pretty much been given the role by the staff, they always come to him with problems from any area as he can sort them out and actually listens to them. Rather cleverly Darielle decided she and her Mum would be GMs, but they are both going to be in Bombay over Christmas so that's no help.We decided that as a selling point for something different we would ask...

This week I went to the dentist, well Doyle our friend who we have mentioned before was trained in America but has a practice in Goa. It is a very exclusive private 'dental lounge', not clinic folks it's a lounge. When he said he would re-fill my tooth that was black amalgam with a white plastic one for 500rs how could I say no? However when he said he could do it with no anaesthetic I wasn't too sure! Actually I decided to try it and found that I could hardly fe...