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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 live closely together, we passed a colourful Hindu temple on the way there and a mosque heading home.

The Christians, however, were dominant here, with the whitewashed Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception the centrepiece of the town square. Memories of distant Santorini perhaps?