Goodbye Goa

Namaste friends and family. Hope that you are all okay back in the UK and its finally starting to warm up.
Well, we cant believe it but our time in Goa has come to a end and it is time to move on to pastures new, to our last destination of Kerala. In fact, we do not have long left in India at all as we move to Malaysia on 31st March but we take with us lots of happy memories and we have really enjoyed our time in Goa, it has been a home from home.

We would love to say that we had a really exciting final week but we had to cancel most of our plans as Andrew was struck down by a bad dose of food poisoning which resulted in another visit from the doctor and a injection in the bum! India's heartfelt way of saying goodbye, I think. So our last week was very chilled watching lots of DVD's in our apartment waiting for him to recover, I, of course, playing nurse (not very good one though). To be honest it had got ridiciously hot anyway so we welcomed the coldness of the A/C.

During our last week we did manage to say our goodbyes to lots of friends we have met along the way and thank everyone for their kindness and help. We must thank Thapa, Niranda, Padam, Lal from Honeys who have looked after us superbly. Hopefully Andrew's consumption of Kingfisher and Rum have kept them in business. Another big thanks go out to Thapa again for his kind help in sorting out our Nepal trip - he arranged for his brother to look after us in Kathmandu and we had a great time with Hari and his wife, Bishmu.

Cath and Glyn, Ken and Lynne, who sorted out our accomodation for us, Kath and Phil who helped sort out our Rajasthan trip with Michael (when Andrew's mum came to see us). Dorothy and Keith who help put us in touch with the orphanage where we had a lovely and crazy time with the kids!
Raju and Paresh who looked after us at Lakeside and kept us entertained.
Sandip our taxi driver who safely took us everywhere we wanted to go.
Must also thank Kirsty and Bez for coming out to see us last November, it was lovely to see you and hopefully will see you again soon.

Finally Keith and Sheelagh who have been our surrogate family when in Goa and have looked after us from start to finish. They have helped us and have been great when we were ill (its very handy to know a nurse in India!), bringing us supplies, magazines etc. We have had lots of great evenings out with them and they have kept us continuously refreshed with alcohol and diet coke at their Villa. We had a lovely final meal with them and their family for our last night as Jennifer and Freya had arrived.

Apologies if we have missed anyone out, there was so many people it is hard to remember everyone so finally thank you everyone.

These are some pictures for our final few weeks in Goa.





Andrew at the Thalassa, a beautiful Greek restaurant in Vagator










Vagator beach


















Me at the Greek






















Keith, Sheelagh, me and Andrew in Vagator on one of our nights out (this was a sensible night though and it didnt involve drunken antics like jumping in the pool!)

















Jaime's Restaurant saying goodbye to friends














Dorothy and Cath @ Jaimes














Us at Republic of Noodles with Jennifer and Freya











The last supper















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