Rob (poipleshadow] put some pictures of last years monsoon on, sorry cant do a link to them, but if you use the search facility, you will find them.

Lin

Lin B
what is a Thalli as use the Plantain leaf now and again and would like to try it

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A Thalli is a flat cooking dish, havn't been to plaintain leaf, so I don't know what it entails,

Lin

A "Thali" is a dish of assorted curries with chapatis or puris (a bit like Tapas). The items in the "Thali" are from a pre-set menu, normally they come with 3 vegetarian curries, atleast two types of lintils (one is normally called Sambar and the other Rasam), some pickles (like mango or lemon), curds (yoghurt), Boiled Rice and sometimes a fruit. This would be a typical south Indian thali - but thalis change in their taste and curries based on the region. In Jaipur, state of Rajhasthan, you could go to Chowki Dhani and get atleast 40 to 50 items in a Rajhasthani thali. There is a South Indian restaurant on the left side just before the steps to the Calangute beach where you get Thalis and south indian breakfast dishes like Dosa, Idli and some Udipi stuff like Uttappa etc. Yummy.... I will be there end of October......can't wait....

re Rob's monsoon photos- they are no longer available on his website.

Hi sorry the monsoon pics aren't on anymore... we had to remove everything as we ran out of space.... - I'm going back in a week so will try and get some new pics up (as I've bought myself a new camera! )

I'll hopefully have chance...

I have a few I will post when I get home,

Lin

Especially for you goalovers!!

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=24923&n_tit=Aug+9%3A+Goa+Faces+Rain's+Fury+-+Pics+of+the+Day+by+Rajtilak+Naik

GFF xx

Thanks GFF - love the one of the Scooter !