Have you ever heard of Porton Down the germ warfare establishment ? Toilets in India are to avoided unless you are wearing a gas mask, rubber boots and gloves.Another point avoid the mens toilet in Victoria Station in Mumbai unless you want to lose your underpants and your virginity.....!

Can't be as bad as the "Ladies" in the Police Station in Panjim - you have to have a key to get in - I have never seen, or smelt such a shitty place in my life, The locked door was to keep the smell and shite in
God knows what the "Mens" is like.

Hehehe I've seen a few here too. And the open ones without seats... basically just hole in the floor.... I just can't figure out How (I'm a female I should point out.) Usually ending up balancing undergarments on top of head... and hope they don't fall off.

We drive up to Thailand (from Malaysia) regularly and we've actually input all the good loos on our GPS

+ The weather
+ Driving round country lanes on the motorbike through small villages with the smell of the Feni stills wafting through the air.
+ The food and the choice of foods available
+ Seeing old faces that always remember your name

- The greed of some people and how they have changed over the last 13 years of visiting.
- The garbage and dogs everywhere
- Taxi drivers at hotels, God forbid you use your driver that you have used for the last 6 years
- Parading of the children from El shaddai on Calangute beach and being pestered for donations from the volunteers.

Got to say the pluses still stack up favorably against the minuses, plus my thick skin can handle most things in Goa. I also feel pretty safe in Goa and able to go about my business without feeling threatened as I have done in other places I have visited.

Positives

- lovely warm weather
- sunshine and sunsets
- chilling on the beach
- seeing my friends who live there or travel there
- being on the other side of the world to the UK
- not going to work every day
- the fresh fruit and salads which are sooooooooo cheap compared to UK
- buying fabby jewellery
- getting time to read a few books
- relief from pain
- seeing the kingsfishers and butterflies flying around on my morning walk to the beach
- lovely warm weather and sunshine
- lovely warm weather and sunshine
- more lovely warm weather and sunshine.........

Negatives

- Goan politicians and snakes
- vicious packs of wild dogs
- too much garbage lying around
- brown wet underpants (or worse - white see through wet underpants!!)
- those old men who strut along the waters edge in THONGS !!
- white skin tax on prices
- Newtons Supermarket and all those who rip you off for your change
- the beggars and scams
- power cuts


Dread - x

Dread - x