Fine
and sunny with some cloudy periods 25 to 32deg C
Up
with the chooks again this morning and pottering around until 0730h when I went
for a walk along the beach with Bob. The extent of the bars never ceases to
amaze me. This beach is about 9km long and there’s a bar every 30m or so!
Back
to another nice breakfast of fresh fruit, cereal, aloo puri (deep fried bread
& curried potato gravy), eggs, toast and tea. Now we are not cycling, gotta
stop eating so much. As John and Simmo would be gone by the time we got back
from our next walk, we said goodbye to them after breakfast.
I
needed a good walk after all that food, so Bob and I headed out to Fort
Sinquerim, about 5km north. The first part of the walk was hot and sticky but
after a while we found some shade along the side of the road. The fort was a
17th century safe harbour for the Dutch, but it’s now a favourite beach and
water playground for the locals, and of course a wonderful spot for a sunset
selfie. From the part of the Fort that sticks out into the sea we could see all
the beaches on this strip, Sinquerim, Calamari, Francoise, Calangute and
Candolim. Good or bad it all provides a great deal of employment opportunities
for thousands of locals who otherwise would have to move to the big smoke to
find work.
We
wandered back, finding a suitable place to get a caffeine fix along the way.
Bob looked for and found a suitable addition to his worldwide trinket
collection down a side lane back near Candolim Beach. We made it back to have a
chat and farewell Ken, who was the next to leave us. It wasn’t long before we
were saying farewell to the next two to leave, Simon and Baz. And then
there were three of us, Dogan, Bob and me.
As
Dogan had not long had lunch and was not hungry, Bob and I wandered downtown
for an early dinner. We hadn’t had anything to eat since breakfast, so we were
getting a bit peckish, as it was now after 1600h. So, it was back to our now
go-to restaurant, The Coastal Grave. The waiter who served us last night, and
took our names to split the bill, greeted us by our names, good memory!
We ordered two veg dishes and two different rice dishes and it was the
best Indian meal both of us could remember. See the highlighted menu below. My
favourite was all of them, but if I had to pick one, I would choose the potato
and cauliflower curry, it was amazing. When the dishes were first served, I
thought no way are we going to make a dent in that, however we managed to
polish off most of the curry and over half of the rice. The meal plus two
drinks each cost us about AS$18 each, outstanding value.
As
we left the restaurant the sun was setting so we went directly to the beach.
While we missed the actual sunset, we managed to catch some lovely colours in
the sky. The parachute speed boats were still towing people around offshore so
that added to the atmosphere. It was then back to the hotel for a well-earned
shower and an early night.
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