The demise of the ‘toyboy’
Wed 23rd – Big T has continued her lifetime of performing unstinting largesse by kindly giving me ‘the Montezumas’. Yesterday was a bit of a blank but getting back to normal today. Actually, I think there is a bug going around as several hardened travellers we know have had it.
Met some interesting people and made new ‘friends’. Linda & Malc from Suffolk – they are our age and are travelling around India for six months. They had to alter there plans recently when she fell and broke her wrist in a cave 200 mile East of Mumbai. They came down to Goa to recuperate. Malc is into music and is the first person I have met in years that saw the brilliant white funk band ‘The Jess Roden Band” in the early 70′s. They have rented their house out for two years, after India, it’s Tibet and China, then next year the Americas, starting with Patagonia. Wow! I can never understand the process where it always someone else that gets the excellent early retirement package!!
The saga of the disturbing neighbours ended in an unpleasant manner. The owners of our apartment were driving pass the restaurant just after the frascas took place, the American lady was lying face down in the road with blood streaming from her face. Ron & Fatima stopped – the mad Indian was shouting that she had fallen over and to leave her alone as she was going to be alright. Ron knew she wasn’t OK, her so called partner had obviously whacked her, so they bundled her into their car and took her to hospital where she had seven stitches in her top lip. The next morning a taxi was waiting to take him to the airport and we haven’t seen him since. The bizarre thing is that we have been told that she was ‘sponsoring him’ , I guess that is another name for having a toyboy. When we happen to see her now she doesn’t make eye contact and covers her mouth with her hand. Quite sad really but my first impression of him was spot-on.
It is now Xmas Eve, the nativity scenes outside the Goa houses are being finished off and everywhere is getting ready for the big celebration tonight. We are meeting some people in a shack called Castellos which has become a firm favorite as the guys that own it used to be the waiters at the Meridien Restaurant, they also brought the cook with them, so now there is one place where the service and the food is excellent.
