Day two

Our mission today was to return to the phone shop to check the phone connection as it still isn't working.  Here you have to have a photograph and give a copy of your passport.  All completed and we should be connected shortly. 

The big annual craft fair is nearly finished so we took a taxi to Panjim to inspect the stalls of sarees, wooden items, pottery, crochet work ( a Goan speciality), food from Gujurat and Rajasthan, Jewellery, woven cane bags, sarees lengths, rugs, artificial flowers. So many stalls. 

Panjim market was so quiet that one stall holder is sleeping on the job.

In the evening we went to our favourite bookshop, Literati. Set in gardens with frangipani, hibiscus, ancient mango tree and coconut trees. This old Portuguese house has been partially converted to a bookshop. We sat in the former living room surrounded by books.  Murad Ali Baig talked about his book Ocean of Cobras.  I've bought it so that I can learn a bit about the Mughals. I've already learned that these Mussulmen first found and published the ancient Hindu writings such as the Bhagavad Gita.  

The evenings jaunt after dinner was Mackies market however we discovered that it is  tomorrow night.