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To the left, there are a lot of facinating
houses. This is one of them. To the right, our friendly cab. |
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This is one of the local Jesus' on the beach. He
appreciated having his picture taken, but refused any money for the photo
op.
Nice beach house with the rubbish in front. Part of the
Goan scene. |
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The boss lady of
El Shaddai Street Child Rescue. She
has dedicated her life to saving children left on the streets and local
rubbish dumps. The Indians treat their animals better than their children.
Sad. Waiting to get to the beach, a friendly British couple.
The Brits are always friendly. Not like the Swedes. |
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Anita, one of the two that will be sponsored by
Martin through school for the next 15 years by Martin's aunt in Switzerland.
Rupi, the other girl that also will be sponsored for the
next 15 years. She looks like one of Ellen's grandchildren, Aune. |
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A happy foster Dad, Martin with his two remotely
adopted girls, Anita to the left and Rupi to the right. Martin will keep in
touch. Martin and his two girls with their teacher on the
beach. |
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Another picture of a happy Martin.
A fancy hat for one of the other foster parents on the beach. Doing some
charity work makes the whole holiday so much more meaningful. |
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The from the beach and the poor kids to see some
fancy holiday concepts. This is one of the houses in the more affluent parts
of Goa. Martin and Ellen was received by the friendly sales
trainee, Kenneth. He is in his learning faces and needed some roughing up.
But he was a responsive pupil. |
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Kenneth sells a luxury holiday concept. Martin
was not interested. Paying £ 8000,- for a 20 year membership make no sense.
Martin's holiday to Goa costs some £ 1000,- on a low cost budget. Why spend
eight times on only a membership?
Of course, the standards are very high. But Martin doesn't
go on holidays to sit in fancy rooms. He is there to enjoy the warm Summer
and the fascinating culture of Goa. |
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Extremely nice kitchen. For what? We are fat
enough.? Luxury lounges. Who needs that? |
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Fancy moon shapes pool. But unpractical and
hopeless to swim in for exercise. The building standards are
superb if that is what you want on your holidays. Fancy dwellings. Not
Martin. |
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There is a long story to this tree. You have a
video clip you can watch. For some
odd reason, Windows Media Player cannot read this one. Try
www.winamp.com instead.
Another useless pool, no good for serious swimming. |
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Nice rocky, stony waterfall on the premises.
They do have exercise equipment like this treadmill, but they should have
decent pools instead, at least 15 meters straight. For serious exercising. |
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Kenneth, the friendly, handsome salesman. Martin
wishes him all the best in his future carrier. He will need it.
The way back to the hotel, our friendly cab driver found the sub 30 degrees
temperature too much to bear, so he put on a woolen cap to keep his ears to
freeze over. Great. |
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