THE FORGOTTON BITS............WARNINGS & A GIGGLE
Our family met up with a crazy couple from Birmingham. We went to Johncy's and had some lovely food, drink and chat. We all wanted a photograph together so asked a waiter. He learnt how to work the camera and on organising us into the frame, waving one arm said very loudly "sir, madam is not coming!". My wonderfully hormonal eldest lad says "I bet he says that to his wife". Well you can imagine how the photo came out"¦ .
The dogs! Wow! there are loads of them. Generally they are pretty quiet and lounge around under the sun beds or curled up at the side of the road. If they don't have any "V's" cut out of their ears be careful. A big V cut out means they have been neutered and a small V cut out means the have been anti-rabied.
My little girl who is a bit wary of dogs got scared in Margoa. We were wandering down a road and she was in front of us. From nowhere 3 dogs came barking and running at her. She screamed and ran to me and jumped into my arms, while the big and brave daddy shouted and swiped them with his foot to get them away from her. As soon as the local shop keepers heard they came out chasing them off with sticks.
Also, our friend Apollo from Emerciana had to take his nephew to the doctors he had been bitten by a stray and needed the anti-rabies jabs (and then it's not 100% that you won't get rabies), it costs Apollo 700 rps for the jabs.
One of the long termers we met there also got bit on the ankle by a puppy and had to pay the doctor for the Jabs, he was charged 1200 rps each jab of which he needed 8 jabs.
Make sure you drink lots of fluids (and not the kingfisher variety!:) ) I must have seen about half a dozen people fainting from dehydration. The waiters are great though and run out with bottles of water and then the chef comes and splashes ice all over the head of the faintee.
If the beach sellers get too much before they have chance to speak to you, tell them they must loves necklaces, t-shirts or what ever they have because they have lots of them and walk off or just keep everything in a towel and as they approach try and sell them your things or pick your stuff up and leg it!
There was a man taking photo's with a mobile of me and a friend in our bikini's, it was very intimidating not knowing what he was going to do with it. We were with one of the long termers that day. He went up to him and said "We have only come here today to see our policemen friends. They will be here in minute, I'm telling them about you, you stay here until they arrive"
The man dissolved into tears and ran to us a begged our forgiveness, he then deleted the photo's of which he had about 20 or so of western women in their bikini's. I don't think he'll do it again. Our friend scared him quite a bit just by threatening with the police.
Oh, I also learnt to ride a scooty side saddle while there.
I think that's about it.
Until next year that is............
Maybe fiona will provide a link,once they are put into the goa album.
