In mumbai now, done and dusted with goa, where lethargy and inertia is de rigueur. The monsoon put a dampener on things, literally, as the seasonal rains deluged us on end. The torrential rainfalls put paid to the beach-bum plans, so we couldn’t really soak up the sun and sand as much as we’d fancy. Still! Goa was wicked. It necessitates that you be really deliberate and insouciant about things. The kind of place where you clock in some solid reading time, indulge in beer o’clock every afternoon, and channel leonardo d’caprio like in ‘the beach’. Yes you get the shabby beach shacks, the seedy grass-peddler, the phuket/vang vieng vibe, but well it was good while it lasted. Haha on the slated departure for mumbai we were thrown a wicked curve-ball we never quite envisaged. On
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