Hello, hello, it's good to be back! Sorry I haven't been more productive lately, you see, I've been on a more conventional style holiday in Goa... The setting for the first two and a half weeks was Palolem beach: with It's two kilometres of gently sweeping golden sand, hemmed in on either side by two palmed headlands, one of which moonlights as Green Island at high tide; enveloping the beach in a perfectly formed crescent, creating in affect, a sand-lined, warm-watery palm-fringed womb. The natural calming affect of this beautiful setting is accentuated by the contrastingly chaotic, dusty, hassling, overpopulated concept of 'real India' which prowls menacingly on the verges of every visiting travellers imagination. Creating a timeless feeling of never wanting, or having to leave. A small minority of hardcore re-offenders populates Palolem, staying for
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