Well I have finally done it, and booked for the 2009 season, I can honestly say that the prices have rocketed this year, I have never seen the flights so expensive. Luckily we had BA airmiles, not enought to cover the full price but we did it with 7,000 airmiles, and 150 pounds each. Which was an excellent price, this year we will be staying from 1st of December until 28th of February.

As we are renting an apartment we don't go out every night, we usually have a meal on the beach then, a snack if we are hungry, that I make, later on in the evening. I have been reading all the local goan papers every day, and I have a feeling that prices this year will not be as cheap as we are used to. Last year I found that many of the shacks food prices were costing more than a resturant, in Candolim or Calangute, this year it will be even dearer, as they will want to recoup there losses from the past year.

I have been in two minds about going back to Goa,as I have felt that it is beginning to lose its majic, with the taxi and tuk tuk drivers, charging the same prices as the UK practically, and the feeling that every one is out to rip you off all the time. but the thought of lazy days spent on the beach, the struggle to stand up on a bus, Mapsua market, Panjim ferry, its won. I cant bear the thought of not going.

I have a feeling that it will be the last time for us, as there is a big world out there, but where else can you spend 3 months, in a place that is so majic.

We will see.