Goa

We are currently on the beautiful beaches of Goa that stretch along the west coast of Southern India. It was a long 3 days in transit while we re-traced our steps across Rajasthan to get back to Delhi and fly in to Goa yesterday afternoon.

Our resort is beautiful....white sand beaches and great food so far!
The weather is hot and sunny and we are relaxing and resting after the chaos we have been completely immersed in for 3 weeks.
Our plans for the next 3 days don't extend beyond: suntanning, sleeping, eating, swimming, strolling along the beach, drinking cocktails...Repeat.

This morning I woke up at 8am and turned on the TV to CNN to see the news of the terrorist attacks that happened in Mumbai about 10 hours before. As of now the entire city of Mumbai is shut down. The train station that was bombed is the one we will be arriving in by night train on the morning of Dec 2nd and we fly out of the Mumbai airport about 20 hours later. Both the train system and the Mumbai airport are currently closed and for now so we will just have to keep an eye on things to see what will happen. We have 3 more days here in Goa. On the evening of Dec 1st we have tickets on the night train from Goa to Mumbai CST station. If things are either unsafe or not operational we will have to come up with a backup plan. Fortunately, Goa is a popular European resort destination so there will be flights from here to Eurpoe and the UK which hopefully we can get a ticket on and then make our way to London for our final fight home should we need to. Hopefully things will settle by then. I will keep you updated!

For now: Things here are business as usual and I am off to suntan and read by the pool :)