Always something new going on.....

Aint life grand. 

 We were awoken this morning by the sound of singing coming across the fields from St Sebastian’s church.   It was beautiful to hear the melodious singing.  The congregations are very much bigger than in our churches, and being an old Portuguese state Goan churches which are Roman Catholic are usually packed.  The singing was followed by some stirring music played by a band, and then the firecrackers were let off, not sure what relevance that has to the service, but there you go.

Varca Church where there are 5 services on a Sunday and the church holds about 300 people

and its always packed

Yesterday we were up in the village buying our weekend supplies, gin, beer, eggs, potatoes, chicken and some okra. 

Prices as follows

Gin £2 bottle

Beer Kingfisher, 60p pint

Potatoes 30p kilo

Eggs 45p dozen

Chicken, slight problem with himselfs request, we got 8 chicken breast instead of two for £3

Okra 60p kilo

Bananas 5p each

Cheap eh?

  When we came out of the supermarket there were hundreds of motor bikes and scooters roaring up the road behind two very big fighting bulls that were moving at about 30 mph on the wrong side of the road!  I hate to think what would have happened to anyone driving on the other side of the road as that lot approached.  As far as we have heard there were no accidents – it’s a miracle, mind you, we often wonder which is the right side of the road as so many drive just in the middle, as do we!

 

 Fighting Bull being taken for a walk in our field

So, himself has done a bit of cooking last night, chicken breasts in a port reduction with creamed potato and okra.  The meal was topped off  with a Goan bread and butter pudding, using mango, pineapple and grapes cooked by me and served with Crème Brule ice cream – yummy. We’ve been here for five weeks and are starting to get a bit curried out!