Day off. Phew. We wanted to use our days off to do things such as sightseeing etc but I don't usually work 6 day weeks or even 8 hour days so we decided to stay in the hotel. The guests had mostly gone off on tours so it wasn't busy. As we have a pool it would be mad not to use it so we went swimming. This time instead of it being just us, we made friends with a lady from Chennai in South India and her two kids Natasha and Travis so took the kids swimming while s...

After work today we decided to go swimming. The water in our pool is quite warm and we managed to do loads of lengths as well as splashing about. After the swim we were both staving and remembered there were takeout pizza menus on the desk in reception. We didn't fancy eating in the restaurant as we have now tried almost everything veg on the menu and the buffet was a chaotic mass of guests all fighting for food. Going for the loaded veg pizza option we settled d...

After work today we decided to go into Calangute for dinner. Being Friday night we hoped to go out and have some fun. After the taxi dropped us we walked past tree house where we usually eat in favour of exploring. Going as far down the Calangute as we could then turning towards the beach I started to feel tired as I had worked all day so we made a deal that we'd eat at the next good place we found, we had waked past a few places just because we wanted to explore...

Just work again today. I now know the names of everyone who works for me and have made friends with the girl on reception, Maneesha, as she speaks good English. It's very tiring work as there are 3 floors to each block and I'm still checking each room personally. Big Mahesh is slowly getting used to the idea he cant sit in a chair all day and actually lent a bit of a hand. Little Mahesh sadly doesn't get this yet and every time I give him a job he still just shou...

More cleaning today, and I tried to do a bit of the manager's job by answering the phone, however the moment anyone, staff or guests, heard me say 'good morning house keeping, can I help you?' they hung up! I also helped Vincent to tart up the restaurant and move all the tables around. This evening the boys wanted to meet for dinner so we went into Calangute to a place called tree house for a lovely cheap meal then played a few rounds of pool over the road. I tri...