Goa-Aranbol, November 26, 2008

At some point it was about to happen. I got food sick today. During the night I had a bad feeling on my chest and did not sleep very well. Also I felt some weakness. Now I have a bit of diarrhea. So I'm not eating anything, just drinking water and tea. Seems that this is part of this kind of travel. And yesterday I ate in the cleanest places I've been. It is frustrating, lots of good food around and you cannot eat.
Despite feeling a bit weak, I took the scooter to the Anjuna Wednesday market. It happens once a week and I had to see it. Anjuna is about one hour from Aranbol. It is a huge market, with hundreds of stalls selling everything India has to offer. Very nice and colorful. But as I'm not shopping at all, it was a quick browse. Later I came to my room and had a 3 hour nap as I was a bit weak. Now I'm feeling a bit better. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be through it.
Today I enrolled in a 5 day yoga class in the Himalayan Yoga center. It is Yengar Yoga, but for beginners. It is 5 days, 3 hours a day. Issue is that the center is about 15-20 minutes walk from my guest house. On the other corner of the city. It starts at 14:00 for 3 hours. I cannot eat anything prior to eat. So the plan will be a good breakfast around 10:00 or so.

The amount of Russians in Goa is amazing. I heard that they have cheap charter flights over. You see them everywhere. In Aranbol you the younger beautiful blonds, in other southern beaches like Calangute you see older Russians.
Today was not a very good day. But I'm optimistic.