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Arrived in Goa

home of the hottest sand in thew world! - Shonah's entry!

02.03.2007 - 06.03.2007 sunny 32 °C

Hello everyone,

Thanks for your messages( Mum, Jim, Dad, Nikki). Its great to hear that things are good back home! Not long now Nickki and John!. Mum Tulip , i'm pleased the flock is ok!. Pa Dobson... We arrived fine took 1 hour. Jim, it's hard to make it look like we've both been writing each entry, so accept our apologies if its a bit biased towards certain people at times!!

So... we got the bus from Udaipur to Bombay on the 2nd March. This was an overnight bus in which i vomited 3 times (why do indians insist on making everything smell so horrible!) ... it's worse when you feel sick already. Our bus started to the sound of a Bollywood movie (or 5) which drove uus insane. It is basically Indian men dressed in shellsuits dancing around gyrating their hips in a perverted fashion.

The hotel in Bombay was fine and relatively quiet! so that was nice.
I did not step foot outside the hotel room for the 2 days we wetre in Bombay as my illness got worse. I had eaten nothing for 2 days. Rich insisted on getting a doctor to come to the hotel as it wasn't getting better. Doctor came and asked me if 'my shit is like water'! he appologised for the language but i was too faint to care although thid did make us chuckle! He then decided i needed 3 injections to my utter HORROR! He said "in your bottom"... so i got it out then felf like a comlete fool as he really meant "in your hip". It felt like he was using a wooden spoon and so i shouted at him to which he replied "be quiet maam... you are not a child"! lol. It seems to be alot better now anyway but the doctors motto worried me abit when he said it is really god that heals and we must trust in him! . Im am only to eat toast (no butter)for 5 days!

Rich ventured out of the room at one point in search of some good old English foddr (macdonalds!). He returned to the hotel covered in paint of all colurs from head to toe! He has been attacked by a group of teenage lads who were celebrating the Hindi festival of colour called 'Holi'. This made us both have a good laugh!

We flew from Bombay to Goa on the 5th March. We are staying in a 'coco hut'. It is a hut ( a bit like a teepee) built of bamboo and palm leaves. The beach is fab and it really is a haven although it is very very hot! You can't walk on the sand in bare feet as it burns them.

Will update soon. We will probably be staying here in Goa at a place called Benaulim for a while.

Loads of love 2 all

Shonah and Rich (Dobber and Dicky)
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Posted by dickydutch 05.03.2007 11:41 PM Archived in India

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hi folks..thanks for the diary entry...glad to hear you`re a lot better but if you still feel a bit ` off ` in a day or two..get it checked out again...hopefully,though . that won`t be necessary.Sounds lovely in Goa..keep on enjoying..love. Dad Sue Gran Grandad.xxxxx

06.03.2007 by ray dobson

Good to hear you reached Goa, no doubt a welcome relief from the cities of India. Also a relief to hear that you are feeling better Sho, you must still take it easy though and look after yourself.Dr Mather said you were "robbed" at being charged £9 by the Doctor!! Sounds like good value to me!!
We are fine here & looking forward to getting Ruby back at the end of the week! We've been busy buying all the bits n pieces she needs, or some we think she needs whereas she's probably not bothered. Dad has been busy in his "inventing shed" making her a scratching pole, she'll be well impressed I'm sure!
Well take care folks, look forward to hearing from you again, lots of love to you both, Mum xx
PS don't forget to slap on that suntan lotion!

06.03.2007 by maholland

Hi you two intrepid travellers - have caught up with you at last. Glad to hear you have had a pretty eventful time so far, with lots of things you will never forget (except the tilly trots te he!)Sounds like life could be fun back at the Holland zoo when u get back - dont think Max will shake paws with the cat and say How do you do - pleased to meet you!! JT off to Bulgaria skiing on Saturday - if they have any snow - which is the last thing you will be seeing! Enjoy yourselves - we will follow your journey with great interest and look forward to seeing all the pics when u get back.
Love from the crew down in Himley.

06.03.2007 by MartynT

rich im selling all ure off to make me some cash.

06.03.2007 by jimholland

rich im selling all ure stuff off to make me some cash.

06.03.2007 by jimholland

Hi, little babe & Rich,

Glad to hear that you arrived in Goa and that the bug is on the mend. Have enjoyed reading all the bloggs and e's. You will need recovery time lets hope you get it and hope that you can get cool.

Collected Dave from Penrith yesterday Tuesday and he is fine and did accomplish a lot of work. Stephen and he have gutted the farmhouse all floors beams and cattle divides are out. The cattle divides are made of stone and Andrea and Stephen call them the 'beasting stones' .They apparently worked very hard but it went well. Some of the stuff is put aside as reclamation such as the beasting stones, tiles and some joists.

This is Dave's lst day baack and already he has been sorting the Aga out by fitting a flue stabaliser to the flue pipe to stop wind affecting the temperature. We have planted the tree that we bought a few weeks ago so hopefully it will be still alive when you get back. It is a Rowan or Mountain Ash and replaces the crab apple that did not ever produce crab apples as we are too high. No sign of drought here as the fields are still very wet.

Alison & Daryl would like to read the blogs aswell but I dont think they have had any luck in getting it up on their computer. I gave them the http://richandsho.travellerspoint.com - but it must not have worked - can you throw any light on that one or is it just them?

Off to Durham tomorrow to see Burt as its his birthday and will see grandad also.

Wear a hat for the sun and drink plenty.(not alchol)

Love Mum & Dave.

07.03.2007 by mumanddave

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