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11.2.26

It was, quite a late start today after a late night.

We had an excellent breakfast at Maria Paulos. It’s also a bakery with some amazing looking cakes. The only thing that spoilt it was the relentless mouth organ blues music. It may have been the same track over and over.

Kevin went in search of his bum bag and glasses. All safe and sound at Agonda Sunset.

A bit of window shopping and a new shirt for Kevin was as energetic as we got.

We began scouring the beach for sunbeds. Fortunately there were 4 free at Madhus Restaurant.

That was it until dinner time. I even slept a while I’m getting good at this relaxation lark. Made it to page 9 of my book now.

We had dinner at Madhus, biryanis all round and delicious.

We went back to Abbas and played cards. Apparently it’s Kevin & Sharon’s game, but it was definitely familiar. Good fun.

A reasonably early night as we’re going out early for a walk in the morning…

As it’s a bit of an uneventful blog I’ll chat about our Abbas neighbours. We have the lovely Danish ladies in the next chalet. They are very into yoga, sunbeds and reading.

Then there’s Michael. Michael bounced into the site on Tuesday.Liz and I were on our terrace, he started chatting to us, then said he’d join us, plonked himself down, commented about how white Lizs teeth are and asked if her eyes are real as they’re so blue, told us about all his exes and took a look round our room whilst waiting for his to be ready. All without drawing breath. It was a bit like someone had dropped a naughty puppy on our terrace. A bit of a whirlwind.

He was either on bail, or is on bail, couldn’t really work it out. He couldn’t tell us what his job is.

Last night he got back as Liz and I sat to have a coffee. I’ll sit with you, not seen you all day…So apparently in the night he had felt really anxious and sick. He almost knocked on our door, but rang his mum instead. I told him to definitely never knock on our door in the night as we’d be terrified. So apparently he ended up climbing in someone’s window, stealing a phone charger but left a note saying he would return it. He’s also paid 4k rupees at another accommodation and will have to split his days between both places.

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