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Archive for November, 2007

Back in Bondi

Back in Bondi, in some ways it is almost as if we never left. Things look oddly the same around here and it is hard to believe that we’ve spent the last four and a half months visiting some of the most incredible places on earth.
Sadly, the blog lagged far behind in the latter […]

cows on a beach

Days 123-124: Cows on a beach. That’s Goa in four words. There’s nothing that quite puts one off swimming than seeing a huge bovine wandering down to the water’s edge and discharging about five litres of urine.
With a dozen or so different beaches to choose from, we spent a couple of days in Anjuna, a […]

a goan immaculate conception

Days 121-122: India! Hindu one day, Catholic the next. So it was in Panjim, the capital of Goa, where we paused to acclimatise to the humidity of South India. This striking silver Christ figure welcomed visitors to the Bishop’s Residence, in the hills above Panjim. Typically for a country in which people of different faiths […]