We celebrated Cheryl’s birthday with a fancy dress Sunset Cruise…..the theme being famous people.  A lot of effort went into the costumes which got a few stares as we arrived as we weren’t the only group on the boat.  We had a great trip and seemed to pace ourselves very well meaning that there was still scope after the cruise to head to a local hostelry for some more drinks and lots of fun.  We got some curious looks from the guys in the local restaurants as we walked back to our place – well, they don’t see Antony & Cleopatra walking down the road every night of the week.

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One downside of being here was that our first few weeks were very, very hot.  The temperatures were unseasonably high with daytime temperatures at around 36C and night time at 25C.  The killer is the 87% humidity making the 36C feel like 46C. Thank goodness we have A/C and access to a swimming pool. 

We arrived on October 23^rd and just a few days into November we read in the paper that October had been the hottest for 50 years.  The strange weather continued into November and we have since read that its due to several cyclones which although far from Goa have affected the weather for a considerable distance.  November was the hottest in 15 years.  Thankfully, as described in The Times of India, ‘the mercury has dipped’ and we now have the usual seasonal weather of 31/32C in the day and 19/20C at night.

Ah, one more thing.  It’s great to back on the curry diet……..curry, how we’ve missed you!