So Stressed Yaar

The past eleven days I have been doing absolutely nothing. Well no, that's a lie, not nothing but more nothing of major interest. After the very last and one of the worst bus rides back to Delhi we arrived at the airport 6 hours early for our flight to Goa. Quickly commandeering the "lounge" sofas we slept. Aaron was ill - India ill and feeling terrible with stomach pain and nausea so after many many hours of travel it was a relief to settle in a beach bungalow where the sounds of the waves crashing puts you in a trance instead of bleating horns and screeching breaks.

It's been stressful to say the least. The biggest decisions start in the morning when I a) have to decided between the stripy or poke-a-dot bikini and b) we have to decide where to go for breakfast. Following that another series of big decisions come when the order of reading, floating, sunning, walking, swimming, paddle-balling, hammoking, dog patting, beer drinking, and of course... where to go for dinner? We did manage to skip the beach routine for a day, instead scooting all the way up to Anjuna, in the far north of Goa from our little beach in the south, Palolem. It was killer hot but worth it because it was the last market of the season and the prices were going down faster than the drips of sweat down my bum. I bought a yak bone carving of Ganesh.

So other than that, there isn't much to report. By request I am going to put up the books I've read while travelling (well, the ones worth reading anyway) in case you're looking for something good to feast your eyes upon.

The Time Travellers Wife - Audry Niffenegger *
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey *
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer *
Life of Pi - Yann Martel *
Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
Desert Dawn - Waris Dirie
Chaos - James Gleick (warning: nerdy science book)
Even Cowgirls get the Blues - Tom Robbins *
Mother of Pearl - Melinda Haynes
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
How Soccer Explains the World: A [unlikely] theory of globalization - Franklin Foer
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan *
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond *

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy *
Shantaram - David Gregory Roberts *
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry *

* If you haven't read any on the list...pick these ones up first