Hi Jeanette (and Ron),
Of course we want more......looking forward to seeing the wedding pics.
GFF xx

good luck for the wedding and honeymoon, and I cant wait to hear more , love shirleyvxxxxx

Best Wishes for your forthcoming wedding.
Looking forward to your report post hen/stag do.
Joanxx

Hi Goancrazy. what a lovely story and congratulations! We got home on Monday night so I am trying to catch up on all the postings ive missed on the forum
We are also flying with First Choice and fly out 16th April. We are staying at the Lagoa Azul. Where are you staying? It will be lovely to meet you and your OH. We will be a Lazy Days on Wednesday 18th April, hope you can manage along.
Hope the stag and hen do's went well.
Looking forward to your next instalment about the wedding plans

Just read that your are also at the Lagoa Azul, sorry!!!!

Bored? Don't be daft woman, keep it coming!! More, more, more...

My OH asked me to marry him in Goa at Christmas and we are going back for our honeymoon too - well, that is if we can ever get round to booking something! It's taken us 8 years to make it official so we will probably be retired when we eventually get round to getting married!

We both wish you all the best and every happiness in the word x

Hi everyone,

I'm goancrazy's O/H (Ron) and want to say on our behalf that we'd love to meet up on the 18th! We arrive in Goa on 10th April and yes, we're staying at Lagoa Azul. We've heard so many positive reports about the place, we thought we'd give it a try. Stayed at MD for the last few years and although it's a fantastic place, we wanted our honeymoon to be something different with a nice change of scenery. We will miss Harry (Nilesh), our usual taxi driver tho, but we do have his number so might get him to pick us up from the airport!
Our hen/stag do was an awesome weekend, lots of fun. I'll let Jeannette (goancrazy) post her next installment on that one tho
We'll both be in "Why No Prayjotts" most evenings and may even treat you to some karaoke! Our friends own the bar and it's a great place, right next to the Falcon Resorts.

Anyways,

See you all soon and take care,

Ron

Ok here goes for the second installment of the run up to the big event. The STAG and HEN party. It is a tale of happiness, sadness and fustration, but it isn't all in one, but here goes.....

We were all planned for the Brugges trip, sailing from Hull on the 16th of Feb. It was all paid for and all eight of us were eagerly anticipating the event.

We live quite a way out of town and we own 2 cars, a neccessity when working different shifts. One an MGF, 2 seater, and one a Nissan Terrano. As my maid of honour wanted to travel with us to Hull there was only one car we could take; The Nissan. Problem one emerges. The Nissan had had a steady water leak since before christmas, and we'd said to our normal mechanic, we'd get it in to fix but had never seemed to have the time. The leak had eventually got worse and worse and the week of the do it was swallowing a litre of water for a 10 minute journey. So we really had to get it fixed.

Now you won't know, but Ron and I work 12 hour shifts for a railway company. 0700-1900 and 1900-0700 days and nights, so that is why u might find posting at all hours of the day or night from us.

Anyway, this week we were on Tues, Wed and Thur nights. So Monday we tried to contact our most trusted one man band mechanic, who has always been excellent and cheap in anything we have needed doing.

So Ron rings Monday...... Hmmm Strange, his phone is straight to answer machine, that is weird. We decided he must be busy and think, "oh well he said when we saw him last it was sommat and nothing", so we'll get up on wednesday early, take the car, and leave it with him, he always fits us in. We can use the other for work.

Wednesday comes and we get up early off nights, normal time, about 3 pm, we get up at 2, and drive both cars up to the garage. Everything shut up no sign of our mechanic. Oh no what do we do, we have to get the car fixed before friday and the trip!

Look round the corner from his unit on this industrial estate and see another garage. Ron and I walk up, ask for the owner, then ask him about our normal mechanic, Dave. He said, "oh no haven't u heard?".... "We say no, what?" He says, "he's in Sheffield Northern General and his situation is bad." "Why, we ask?" He explained that Dave went to a pub on the Sat before, got a lock in and they had asked him to leave out the back. He'd been talking to a guy as he left, not watching where he was going, opened a door and fell down a celler shaft. He told us he had no feeling from the neck down and it was doubtful he would work again.

We feel awful. Our trusted mechanic is near to death, and while we feel for him we need our car fixing so we go to his rival round the corner.. a decision that didn't sit lightly and nor would it on the next installment... The Journey!

Poor man hope he recovers.
We are waiting to hear about the journey now .....

It's not me, i'm already married

two goancrazies!!!!!

Goan Crazy (with the space!!!! ) hope you are having a great holiday. Not long til you come back to cold, soggy Britain .....

Oh lol 2 Goancrazy's lol one with a space and one without I get the feeling you are a male Goan Crazy, well I am your opposite. But hey we are both Goan Crazy so when I am there on my Honeymoon in April I will have a toast in your name/my name ))

Goan Crazy with the space in still in goa, I met him and his lovely wife the other week. Great company. (Even although he put a posting on here once I had left Goa advising me it was boiling hot :twisted:)

Crikey Gemma, you think we were good company, you must have been out for drinkies with the Kray twins and Bin Ladin at some point

Sorry all HT'ers to take so long over the second part to my story but wedding plans going a bit crazy at the minute. Only 3 weeks on Sat to go before the big day, can't wait. Anyway back to my story.

We arranged for my maid of honour to arrive at our house to set off at 1530 ish. We have a dog and cat (Bonnie and Clyde) and Ron (Ronaldo190172) had arranged for his mum to look after the dog and Cat while we were away. She lives in Sheffield, we live in Doncaster and she doesn't drive so we went to pick her up the night before.

All packed and ready to go, maid of honour arrived early, so we decided at 1510 that we should just get on our way and have more time for celebrations.

Off we go, I was driving, with Ron in the back and my maid of honour handing out drinks as necessary. All eager in anticipation of the weekend ahead.

We get onto the M62 towards Hull, as the P&O ferry terminal is based there. Laughing and joking as we go. I looked at the speedometer to make sure I wasn't doing over the limit, and saw a strange light on.

"Ron is it normal for the battery light to be on" I asked, because I had never seen it before. "No," he replied. Hmm dilema... do we stop, or carry on? My maid of honour piped up, "better stop and see, we don't want to arrive back from Brugges and not be able to get home," "true," I added. We stopped on the hard shoulder and Ron had a look. "The alternator belt is knackered," he shouted. Oh no! We'd tried a new garage man, it wasn't bust before but it certainly is now. Only one option open to us was to return home and my maid of honour to take her car... but would we have time? Final check in for the boat was 1730. It was 1540 and we had to get back to Doncaster, change cars and back. Now I am starting to panic.....

We arrived back at Doncaster, changed cars and are back on the road for just after 1600. Hmm... I went to Uni in Hull so I know it is normally a 45 minute run. But on a Friday evening at this time of day, traffic can be bad. Really starting to worry now.

Journey, luckily enough went without stress and we arrived at the terminal at 1700 ish. Everyone was there waiting for us and asking why we were so late. I just shook my head and told them to let me calm down have a beer and a cigarette and would explain everything.

The weekend was absolutely fantastic, we had a few drinks and the food aboard was wonderful, for very little money you can eat and eat to your heart's content.

We arrived Zeebrugge port on the Sat morning and disembarked at around 0830 approx.

We have some internet friends who we speak to all over the world but very few have we actually met. Luckily we have been on this trip before and our Belgian friend Kristoffe was going to meet us at the train station and guide us to the best shops, eateries and sights that Brugges had to offer. Another of our friends, Patrik from the Netherlands, who we had never met was also meant to be meeting us but we didn't know when and where. So off we went for a day of fun. Patrik eventually met up with us after a gruelling 3 hour journey on a train. I have to say he is one of the nicest men ever and to spend the money and time to join us for a few hours, for people he has spoken to over the internet and never met, for us meant the world. He arrived at about 1300 and we had to leave at 1700. I just felt bad about him travelling all that way for just a few hours, but can say he is a friend for life and without the internet, we would have never have that privilege of meeting him.

The evening home was a bitter sweet event. We had had a wonderful day and a wonderful meal that night in the posh restaurant. My mum (who I am very close to) paid for everything and when I asked why, she told me that had my dad been here (he died when I was 16) he would have made sure champagne was on tap and I would have had the best of everything. A touching moment, which I will never forget.

The journey home went without event and we arrived back at about 0900. Ron's mum was there to greet us and said how good the dog and cat had been. We had a cup of tea, then Ron said, "as the 4x4 is buggered, I'll have to take my mum back in the MGF." I was thinking, "oh I am so glad, I get to have a little nap while he is gone".... no such luck. Can you believe it, he went to start the car and guess what?....... The battery was dead... GRRRR can we have any more problems with our cars??????

We tried charging the instant starter we had bought but it takes 5 hours to charge normally. After 3 hours and 2 failed attempts with it, we admitted defeat. We had to pay 40 pounds for a taxi to get her home.

I hope I haven't bored u all with my story. The wedding is the 31st of March and we go to Goa 9th April to Lagoa Azul. Hopefully in between I can tell u all how the day went and look forward to seeing some of you in the flesh out there in goa. Especially you Gemma, who is stopping there at the same time.

Take care HT'ers speak to you soon

Jeannette and Ron

xx

Jeanette its not boring at all its really good, the bit about your mum bought a tear to my eye and made my bottom lip quiver its so sad but lovely if you know what I mean.

Good luck with the cars.

Sue