Hello friends, hope you are all well! We’ve now left behind the touts, tourist shops and Russians and moved down to South Goa. We live a simple life in a small wooden beach hut in a secluded cove, which has eight other huts, wooden fishing boats and a restaurant run by a Buddhist monk who can walk on water.

We share our new hut with an uninvited roommate – Boris the spider, who could well be poisonous. We also have an Indian tortoise on our balcony, who we have managed to capture on film!

Sometimes when we wake up in the morning there is a homosexual photo shoot going on outside our beach hut. The Indians love pulling cheesy poses for pictures, and none more so than the gay couples who holiday in South Goa.

One morning when we poked our head around the cove there was a film being made, starring big-shot Indian actor Archania Taryn. They were shooting a dance scene and we were asked to join in as backing dancers. All the other dancers had learned the routine, so we were just told to ‘feel the rhythm’ and ‘freestyle it’, which we attempted. The film’s called Archu Mechchu (like and loving) – watch out for it in the cinemas!

We’ve also taken on the might of the Arabian Sea in a couple of kayaks, battling against the tide in search of a secluded beach. An eagle joined us for part of the journey, flying backwards and forwards in front of us with a snake in his talons. We like to think he was guiding the way, but he may well have been looking for a good place to eat his dinner. When we got to the beach we did a bit of climbing and watched the sunset while precariously perched on a rock.

We then had to kayak back twice as fast because the light was dying. Dolphins were swimming beside us all the way back against the sunset, which was an amazing experience.

There are stray dogs everywhere here, all of which we call ‘Dogface’. One particular Dogface leads us back to our hut at night when we’ve had too much beer and shmokey pancakes.

Soon we move even further down south to a beach which is essentially a hippy commune. Yoga on the beach every morning, guitar round the campfire at night and no food which has been within fifty meters of a chemical. When we were there last night it felt like we were in The Beach!

Anyway, we won’t bore you any longer. Love to you all and we hope you enjoy the pictures!

Peace love and good vibes, Michael and Pip xxx