pool so fast you wouldn't believe it! The pool was actually pretty big, and great fun, and we were able to order breakfast by the pool, so life had definitely taken a turn for the better. We had a couple of good walks on the beach, but found that the sea was a bit dirty, and the beach was covered in what we later found out to be tar balls, apparently from another ship which had run aground. Also it seems that during the monsoon, and especially after the heavy cyclone rains, all the crap from on the land gets washed into the sea, so we stuck to the pool, which wasn't too much of a hardship! Even though by now the resort was quite packed, mostly with Indians, we had the pool to ourselves most times, and a highlight was the coconut we bought from the coconut man, he chopped the top off with a machete, and put a straw in it so we could drink the milk, and then chopped it up for us to eat the coconut flesh, which wasn't at all like coconuts I've had previously, which I now assume most be dried, the flesh is

really moist and almost fatty, you wouldn't want to eat a lot of it! After a couple more days lounging by the pool we decided to head off to Palolem, reputedly the most picturesque beach in Goa.

We'd been traveling around South Goa by local bus, the first time we'd been subjected to this mode of transport in India. It has to be said that it's an extremely cheap way of getting about, and the busses were not quite as crammed full of people as we'd seen elsewhere, so it was manageable. Some of the driving is a bit mental though, to say the least, but the ride down to Palolem, right in the south of Goa was some of the most beautiful scenery we'd seen in Goa.

We arrived in Palolem to find that it absolutely lived up to its billing. It's a gorgeous coconut palm lined sandy bay hemmed in