Hey lin!! My mom bought me some of the indian style shoes back in Jan and i started a trend they werent very popular she paid about £4 i think and now everyone has got them on!!!

Hi Jade, just about everyone is wearing indian sandals, and my authentic ones are very much admired,, To anyone who hasn't been before, wait till you get there to buy sandals and kaftan/beach cover ups, and don't even think about buying a sarong before you go.
See you out there

Lin

i agree lin ,,buy when there ..just look on ebay its flooded with indian fashion .i would have probaly bought off there , but going to goa has seen how cheap these things are ,just wish i had got more inscence burners ,,you just can not have enough lol

I bought back loads of incense sticks and burn them continuously, it is one of the smells that transport me back, even the tuk tuk drivers used to have them burning in the front of the cars.
I actually bought a pair of indian style shoes yesterday, my old man couldn't beleive that i bought them here, In my defence they were "unusual" and had my name on them.

ooooh insence sticks,every time i light one im transported back to goa,the trouble with us now is that we could never see goa for the beautiful place it is,we will just see the crulety for the kids and amimals,and could never relax as we would always be wanted to save a child or another dog(only 4 more months in quarentine for our puppy)
xxxxx

I've gotten the neighbours on to the insense sticks.
During the good weather i've been sitting round the back sippin' one of my last remaining bottle of HoneyBee and surrounded by jasmine insense sticks, have got orders to bring some back with me.

Apart from loads of incense sticks....over the years I've brought back loads of shoes too!! The toe thong flat 'shiney' ones ..decorated with 'mirrors' or beads! Love 'em! Also the glass coloured bangles...a to transport home though! Plus silver jewellery from the tibetan market....and this year some fantastic clothes from Ingos night market!!!

I just love those shoes too pam and everyone remarks on them i left most of mine over there when I came home in April and really wish I hadnt as the weather has been so good and they are SOOO fashionable here!!
Chilly

Wore my sandles to work yesterday and everyone commented on them, all favourable, some wanted to know when I was returning so that I could bring them some back. All of them were amazed when I told them how little I paid for them.
Looks like it is cloths for CWT going out and and sandles, sarongs, incence sticks and honeybee coming back
jayne

The jasmine are my fav too!!
chilly

Newbutt

You've got the right idea. Take nothing except what you are willing to give away and buy everything you need when you get there.

Cheap as chips and no problem with the baggage allowance.

Hi did anyone see Coronation Street tonight, Sunita had a lovely purple tunic top on with silver embellishments, wonder where she got it from?
Talking of packing, just finished packing for a 2 week camping trip to Normandy, I commented to steve (hubby) that he's taking more than twice as much clothing than when we go to Goa ; I think it's because of all this "just in case", ahhhhh for Goa, at least you know all you need there is swimming cosies & sarongs/shorts for the beach and something to cover up at night or if you go shopping/Old Goa etc.
jayne

Hi Jayne,

Thanks for thinking about bringing clothes over for the kids... We currently after chidlrens clothes (preferably) between the ages of 3 and 10, obviously we will surely find a home for anything we are brought, but that would be the best age range at the moment. Last year we got LOTS of under 1's (I guess that's because everyone buys things for babies and they grow out of the so quickly)... Other things we are interested in are educational items, things to do books, science/nature books (they should be realatively simple books as English is their second language and they've mostly not had much schooling).. Building games or craft things would also be good (just to give you and others an idea...) Please do not buy things specially though, good seconds are fine. If anyoe wants to buy things then items can probably be bough in India cheaper (especailly when it comes to pens, pencils, paper etc)...

Hi Rob, the clothing i've managed to collect so far have been for children aged from about 3 years up to 14/15 years old, also vitamins, babywipes and some picture books with felt numbers and letters to help with maths and spelling.
Hopefully extra baggage allowence will be allocated, but if not i'm sure steve wont mind buying more trousers and tops out in Goa, he usually does a turn around with his wardrobe when we are there, leaves the clothes he takes out for friends and the lads in the hotels and bring back the new ones ready for our summer (summer, thats a laugh
jayne

Yeah that should be fine. Only thing you have to remember is that English kids are a fair few sizes bigger (for their age) than Indian slum/stree children as English kids eat, Mc Donalds, and rubbish like that and street kids tend to have a very limited diet of probably Rice, Japati's (no idea if that's spelt right) and maybe vegitable Dal, or meat if they can afford it... Eg - they're very slim!!!! (hasn't rubbed of on me yet though!)

But like I said I'm sure we can get rid of things as I've dropped clothes off with the rag pickers (mainly adults) who are more than happy to take the new clothes...