Return to Mumbai and Other Things

Hello!

Yesterday was a sad day in the lives of Leanne and Ryan, as we walked away from our friends at Lilliput Cafe to head for the train to Mumbai, and the impending end of our journey in India.

There were a few fun things that happened though! We spent the last few nights up late partying with people that we met and we decided to go to a club for the first time in India. The thing about Goa is that many travellers, particularly in Anjuna, are hippies/former hippies/dancefreaks and heavy drug users, so the dance clubs all play dance/techo/trance music. The club was just about the weirdest experience, with everything painted in glow-in-the-dark paint and people dancing terribly to terrible music all as if they've taken many different drugs (you have to have taken drugs to enjoy that music). But we did it, and it was an experience.

On the way to the club we were walking with Raj, one of the waiters we met that we like, and the "police" stopped us. They mainly wanted to harass Raj by asking him questions like "why are you with tourists? did they invite you?" and the like. But not knowing they were police officers because they were wearing shabby clothes, Ryan and I were really lippy when they grabbed at our friend. Ryan and I both had our respective run ins with the police the following evening after swimming at night. They were in what appeared like janitors uniforms and had no ID this time, but they searched my bag. They didn't take any of my money or charge me with anything, so I'm pretty sure they were real police, but who ever really knows.

Yesterday, our last day, we went to the Taj Hotel Jiva Spa for a luxurious 2-hour massage and exfoliating spice wrap. Were it not for a few minor problems the massage would have been complete bliss, but it was close anyway. Ryan and I were like jelly afterwards. Neither of us had much sleep this week so it was an exhausting day to be saying goodbye and take the train.

We are in Mumbai now and have met some nice Brits in the lobby of our hotel where we had to wait 3 hours for a room to open up, so we might go meet them for dinner. We wanted to see a Bollywood movie but the only one playing here is only in Hindi and I just can't sit through 3 hours of something I don't understand at all. So the rest of our time here will be spent eating, sleeping, and arranging things for London and Paris, which I am really looking forward to (except the cold and the thought of losing my fabutan).

Cheerio!
Leanne