Hello world!

Well, here goes – our first attempt at ‘blogging’. We’re now three months into Alison and Martin’s Big Adventure. Still alive, and still upright – unlike the locals, some of whom are so laid back they’re horizontal. We’re going to try using this space to keep our UK friends and family more up-to-date with our news and the latest ‘funnies’ (it’s a house rule that something makes us laugh every day).

Today’s funny is that the water’s off – not sure when it went off (properties in Goa have large water tanks on the roofs so the taps don’t run dry immediately). We have been told that it won’t be back on until Friday – maybe, or ‘magir’ (later) as they often say in Konkani, the local language. We’ve been told that when supplies dry up, we will have to buy water from a passing water tanker. To keep us going we have filled a five gallon bucket.

There’s always something. If it’s not the water, it’s the electricity. Or the gas bottle’s run out. Or the server’s down (Sunday afternoon, around 4.30pm local time, when Alison wants to listen to Desert Island Discs).

More magir. Adeus.