Update

Helen is under the weather with a bad cold picked up in North India. 

We walked along the river past the hotels in the morning and then wandered on down the road towards the Anjuna road. We couldn't pass a large supermarket called Orchard Stores and had our eyes opened. The shelves contained a wide range of goods and this is where the long term, sun wizened hippies do their shopping. Dreadlocks on one white guy, tight clothes on an ancient European mama and skintight leggings, showing all, on a younger version! 

It was after 1 when we returned to the apartment and very warm.

Later Kamal collected us for dinner and she drove us to her house in Assagao. It is a three storey house built 8 years ago in the Portuguese Goan style with shaded verandahs and cool marbled floors. On the top floor is a small seated area overlooking the treetops.

Kamals daughter and husband arrived with their 4 month old baby, Also a tiny indo-Canadian  girl, who is a musician, and a French woman with her musician boyfriend and baby. We sat outside in the dark, after the mosquitos had gone, with a bright, waxing moon and Orion visible above us.

The conversation flowed firstly around Sikhism and then politics. The new AAP party, against corruption, recently gained control of the New Delhi area (a powerful win) and rescinded many of the controls and structures set up between the World Bank and the strategically muscular Indian energy company which controls the other two parties. 

Sunny, the musician boyfriend sings Sufi songs of his own creation. One song he sang was about the Indus River dolphin which is threatened because there are so many dams along the upper Indus. He is a trained medical doctor but prefers music and, hopefully, politics.

Kamal provided us with a delicious meal of kebab, paneer and spinach, dal, curd, prawns, cauliflower, chappatti and rice served with wine or beer. This was followed by fresh cream cakes. 

We were glad to flop into bed at 11:30.