Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Dad for 23rd
Happy Birthday Vanessa for 24th
Happy Birthday Jesus for 25th
MERRY CHRISTMAS Everybody!

Especially to Jim, Shirley, Dan and Tom who is back to the UK for a few weeks from South Korea, hope you are still enjoying it Tom.
They say that Jesus wasn’t born on 25th December as we are told; it is more likely to have been March, April time. The reasoning being that when they look back in time, there was a super nova around that time that is said to have been the star of Bethlehem. I know exactly when it was; April 1st.
Very quick one today, as I know you all have presents to open. At least I hope you do. We have a new favorite restaurant called the Sharmen which is right across the road from where we are staying. We had been going in for a quick drink on our way out as we felt sorry for them as nobody ever seemed to be in there. Although I remember from last time it was always full of locals, but we had never eaten there before. We were having our usual drink the other night when Claire decided we should go back to ours early and watch our film channels with a bottle of Sula which was chilling in the fridge. We asked for a menu but Claire had already decided on tandori chicken to pick at and share. I noticed on the menu they had garlic chips and chili chips which sounded interesting as an accompaniment. We ended up with tandori chicken and chili chips; I also got chicken tika as I knew Claire would prefer it to tandori without all those bones and she had never had it without the massala before. I asked the waiter what chili chips were and he said, "You will never get this in any other restaurant sir, we invented it here". It’s difficult to do an accent when writing but when I read it back its there. What a delight, they were fantastic; watch out Gordon Ramsay.
We headed out to the restaurant at the end of the universe on Tuesday which is really called, "WOW 619". It is at the extreme north end of South Goa’s beach. As it was not quite lunch time (even for us) we left our heavy bag and towels at the bar and had a walk to the very end of the beach which we had not got to before. On the way back we noticed this Old Portuguese chapel set back in the jungle which made me think of Christmas.
One last picture of an old fishing boat and a video that I have been saving. I took this when were ate at the fish restaurant
in the Majorda Beach resort and they came to practice. It’s a shame I didn’t record the song after this as that’s the one that Claire found particularly funny. Have a good one everyone!