Oh My God.! What can you say Lez. Its a crazy place, but we all love it.

OK...here's one.
Two guys on a scooter. They're carrying a huge sheet of glass. The glass is about 2.5ft wide and about 8ft tall.
The glass is standing tall on the footplate at the front of the scooter, the driver is looking through it (like a windscreen), with his arms wrapped around the edges holding the handlebars. He has a plastic bag wrapped round each arm so he doesn't cut himself on the glass.
The pillion passenger at the back has his arms round the driver and is holding the glass steady so it doesn't blow back and snap in the wind.
You know when a shiver just runs through you......and you think...decapitation.

Oh....and they were overtaking us !

I THINK ITS AMAZIN HOW THE WOMEN CARRIE ALL THE HEAVY THINGS ON THEIR HEADS

when we were there in dec we were parked at bonnies near the osborne having a few on the way home. a guy in a very flash mummy mobile (big black tinted windowed 4 wheel drive jeep thingy) cut across an old guy in tatty clothes on a battered old scooter causing the old guy to run into the back of his shiny mega mobile. the young guy jumped out & started ranting at the poor old guy & immediately about 7 young guys from shops & those just hanging around ran over the road & stood in front of the old guy to protect him telling mr flash to leave him alone.

one of them took the old guy away & sat him down & got him a drink & the next thing the police arrived........not just one car around 6, for the next hour we sat & enjoyed the show, another few coppers had arrived on motorbikes & scooters there was around 10 there, they started measuring up & chalking tyre/skid marks, lots of discussion, next minute another car draws up & very important man with lots of stripes etc on his epaullettes joins in. ( chief of something obviously )
it was amazing especially as the whole incident was literally a minor bump, the sort you get driving around london every day, no one was hurt i dont think either vehicle had any damage at all, probably not even a scratch.
but what i thought was really lovely was the way all the local young lads straight away jumped in to protect an older obviously poorer man from mr irate flash!

Mr Irate was a bully :

.....best I saw this year was a guy driving up the Candolim Beach road with a Christmas Tree held upright on his scooter - could not see a thing for sure! .... best thing my husband saw was a guy with wait for it an alsastion length wise across the scooter with his head stuck out one side and his backside/tail the other! My husband was apoplectic - I said the dog would be fine - he said fine, fine don't be ridiculous till I explained that the dog would be fine but not an Alsation but a Jack Russell when it got to his destination! Haha. Only in Goa.

the alsation reminded me of the owners of zicos resteraunt/bar near the osborne hotel, they have a gorgeous golden lab 'goldie' who is suffering a severe case of middle age spread............no im being polite the dog is very fat we used to call her the 'pudding dog' anyway thought it must be from getting too many tit bits from customers/kitchen................no the dog is never allowed in the kitchen or resteraunt when customers are eating......mystery solved one evening when i saw pudding dog being transported to the familys apartment on one of the brothers scooters!! ( their apartment is very close to their resteraunt) it was hillarious & i have a pic somewhere!