Candolim

After the relaxing week in Benaulim, which invloved nothing more strenuous than kicking a football about on the beach or helping a couple of fishermen stand their boat upright, we decided on another move. We've moved about 10 miles north of Benaulim, to a town called Candolim, slightly busier than where we were before and right next to an old early 17th Century Portuguese fort called 'Fort Aguada' (I think that's the spelling.) We went up and gave it a little visit today. Rented some more mopeds, for 5 days this time, and only 100 rupees a day, so we're probably going to head a few towns up and meet a friend from Benaulim tomorrow, he ran the beach-shack we went to most frequently, but has since packed up and moved to where the most fun is at the end of the Indian tourist season, which is why we are following!
Just off the shore in Candolim is an old wreckage, an oil tanker called River Princess, which has been there for about 9 years, right on the shoreline, and only now are they towing it away to break up for scrap, but a little to late to salvage the engines, boilers, generators etc. that were on board as the local people had it stripped of anything useable in about 2 months.
Now I have finally recovered from 10 days of dysentery and now I'm off the antibiotics, we're just taking advantage of the cheap food, cheap beer, cheap everything. We both had a Vindaloo last night, which is a dish from Goa. Vind-aloo is from the Portuguese words for wine and garlic, which is what the curry sauce is made out of. Now don't say this trip isn't educational.