Back to Benaulim, Agonda and Mumbai then UK bound!
The last blog
from India, sorry it’s a month late but not much to report so it will be a
short one!
With my
dental treatment for this visit over, we had planned our last couple of weeks
in Goa back in our favourite places in the South.
We were also
being joined by our very good friends from Nottingham, who were visiting India
for the first time, and we were looking forward to showing them Goa.
We got the train down from Thivim to
Madgaon and then got a taxi to take us back to Mistral Holidays in Benaulim,
where we spent my birthday back in January.
This was only for 2 nights before our friends got there, so we could get the
keys for the villa we had booked for the 6 days we had booked and get settled
in before they arrived.
To allow us to nip to the shop,
off-licence etc we hired a scooter for the week which would help us to do this.
On the day we moved into the apartment, Sadie got some basics in, and I got a
taxi up to the airport to meet them.
The villa we had rented was lovely, 3
bedrooms (2 which were ensuite), huge open plan living room/kitchen and outside
terrace with our own private pool. We had 6 nights here, and had plans to go
out sightseeing, dinners etc for that period.
On our first night together, we had
some drinks and then went out for a lovely dinner in town, and on the way back
to the villa… disaster struck!
M had taken a tumble, sober too! And
it wasn’t till back in the UK that it was discovered it was a fractured ankle.
Anyway, this incident changed the dynamic of our time with them, but we still
had a good time.
We managed to get really drunk on the evening river cruise (again!!), chilled
by the pool most days, with the occasional taxi out to get dinner.
For the 2nd week we booked the same place in Agonda, Sea 2000, where we had stayed for the festive
period. On the way there our friendly taxi driver took us to a temple and
taught us how they made Urrak, a local spirit!
This week was a bit easier as we were
right on the beach, so spent a lot of the time having cocktails for sunset in a shack, eating out, but
by this time of year it was unbearably hot and humid and most afternoons we
spent hiding in the AC Room!
We had a huge meal with more friends joining us for Sadies Birthday and she even had some cake. We only ventured out of Agonda
once to visit a recommended restaurant in the nearby Palolem called Ourem88 and
we had an amazing meal there… sadly when we got home, we found out the English
couple who own it are selling up!
A highlight of this week was watching a mum turtle lay her eggs and also another night we seen some baby turtles being released into the sea too.
Our last week here soon flew past, soon it
was time to say our goodbyes and then after our last night in Goa, myself and Sadie headed
back up to Mumbai on the train for a couple of days. This was a long day, and
we’ve already decided next time we will just fly up, to make things easier
coming home.
We went back to stay with our friends
in Mumbai for those 2 days, went out for a meal together and then it was our turn to go
to the airport and fly back to France. It was an early morning flight, so we
had to get to the airport around midnight and by the time we landed in Nice, we
were shattered and had been up for over 30+ hours.
Our plan was we stayed with Sadie's
parents again for 5 days, then drive back up through France and get the ferry
back to Dover! We had a lovely time again going out for some amazing
food and it was good to see them all again too.
We had a fairly uneventful 3 days
travelling North to Calais, and before long we were back on UK soil on the 20th
of April, which was 27 weeks after leaving back in mid-October!
This gave us only 2 weeks to get sorted
with a towing vehicle, get Freddy, practice towing and then try and sell Daisy
before our first event of a very busy summer!
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