Today I decided to, as Dinky puts it 'kick some ass'. Dinky is an ex wing commander in the Indian RAF and likes things to run well, which he never gets, but he has a good sense of humour about it. I had 20 rooms to prepare and 4 members of staff. They claimed a room took 45mins but I explained to them that that wasn't clean enough for my standards. The boys looked blank, Sandhaya (Sunday) looked resigned and Pryanka (Bianca) looked decidedly furious. I then learn...

Today was our first day at work. As expected it was pretty hard. The language barrier wasn't as much trouble as I expected as there are quite a few staff who speak a little English. The main trouble was they wanted me to sit in the housekeeping office all day, 'doing what?' I hear you ask…well that was just it, doing nothing. That's how management works here, they are the people who are far enough up the cast system to have the best paid jobs while actually doi...

5 years. Today. Its a long time! We spent the morning chatting about the last 5 years and relaxing after the dancing of last night. After much debate and input from the staff we decided to go to Baga and try a restaurant called Britto's. It as right on the beach, the floor was sand and there was some live music. Vincent secured the best table in the house - right at the front of the beach looking out on the sea - and we ate a lovely ( Nicole had the biggest prawn...

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...