13th February

Day 22

We were going to spend a day at the beach when Ted suggested a trip inland up the Mandovi River.
We set off and were getting a bit off the usual roads, when we decided discretion was the better part of valour and returned to fill up with petrol. Petrol stations are quite few and far between, but for small quantities you can often buy a litre water bottle of petrol from stalls at the side of the road, the sight of several of these bottles in the direct sun is quite nerve racking.

We traveled on and saw some interesting sights, for instance was this a Bank or a Bus stop


Here is a view looking down over the meandering river, all around are pools for rearing prawns.



Here are some small prawns drying on the side of the road.


When we were out with Pradeep we had some of these prawns, chopped up with onion and just moistened with a dressing, served as a relish and it was very nice.

There are several ferries which alow people to cross the river or go from island to island .
That's us right at the back, sorry room for one more.



Here is the next one that we missed


But another will soon turn up.



For lunch we had fish, the cats and the birds were after the scraps and the cats often got a peck if the Jackdaw fancied what a cat had.

The restaurant had no menu, only served fish and that was what had been just caught, so we had just three choices and chose grilled Pomfret, it was delicious.

The restaurant.

After lunch we hurried back to avoid the Carnival traffic, although in the evening going to and from our dinner restaurant we got tangled up with the returning floats,still blaring out their music