As usual, it’s a bit of a rollercoaster here. Two steps forwards, one backwards. So as all business dealings here seem to involve acronyms of some description, we’ve come up with some of our own to assuage the frustration.
Our current favourites are TII – this is India, MII – made in India (usually followed by the ubiquitous ‘where’s the araldite?’) and, our personal favourite, IWA – India wins again.
The Home Department continues to triumph in their campaign to stop us paying our visa fees. We’ve made the two hour round trip to Porvorim twice now. First it was a Saturday and they were closed. Then it was a public holiday to celebrate a Muslim feast. Attempt number three is pending for some time in the next week.
We’ve decided the only solution is to purchase a Goa government calender which will have on it all the official feast days and all the optional ones too. We will probably still get caught out by those that are determined by the phase of the moon, however TII.
