90 days of summer

Hey everyone!

So we've kind of figured everything out! On sunday we arrived to Panjim and found a lovely guest house in a nice little neighbourhood in the middle of town. And since we've got here we have basically been walking around this little town doing what ever... shopping, eating, taking pictures... it's very nice just enjoying the last couple of days in peace. Panjim is a very nice town with many nice buildnings and shops, not that many restaurants though but we'll manage. Today our mission is to shop until we drop! Soon we are going to the tailor because Jacob is buying a nice tailored suit! Tomorrow we're hunting for a fab pool to cool off by and the day after tomorrow I'm getting a manicure and a pedicure and Jacobs getting a clean-up facial at this really fancy parlor!

This was basically it. A little update on our fabulous life. We have three days left in India and it feels really weird actually that we are coming home. It feels like we've been here for ages, a lifetime allmost, and we have allmost forgot what the Helsingborg-life is like. The life we have lived in this envoirment is SO different from our reality back home. Well, I bet it's all going to come back to us... but I still think that we have changed quite a bit. Time will tell I guess!

Now we are going to go back to enjoying our last couple of days in India! Talk to you soon!

Hi people!

Last time we spoke (or wrote?) we were in Varkala, after the-finger-in-the-fan incident we actually recovered by the pool the next couple of days. Very nice I must say. We met some lovely random people... it's funny when you are travelling and meeting other people who also are travelling and you're all the same. We had a few nice days with Barry from England who's sixty and Gary from New Zeeland who's fourty-two.

On thuesday afternoon we took a train from Varkala to Trivandrum and with a bit of excitement we jumped on a very fancy train into first class. And this was something else... the AC hit us like lovely snowstorm and the nice rug under our feet felt like heaven on earth... we had sheets, CLEAN sheets and nice blankets. It's hard to believe but when you travel around like this, with no expectations you get really really happy when the sheets are clean... and you never ever expect a soft rug. Then we had a three cours dinner which was quite boring but we ate it because our ticket had cost us eight-freaking(!!!)-thousand rupees and the food was included. Anyway, we had a good nights sleep and after breakfast it was time, we had arrived in Goa. 

We got off the train and took a very expensive taxi to Calangute that a new friend from Varkala had recommended, so we thoght we might give it a try. This place was the most awful little shitty town we've ever been to. People who thinks this is nice must be kidding or on some kind of drug. We went to the beach and we both just stood there and sighed. The beach was packed with indian tourists just standing there and looking at all of these watersports that was going on. It's hard to describe but it was just awful. Trash everywhere, people everywhere, little shops that sell fake stuff EVERYWHERE. And at least half of all these indian tourists were wearing the same t-shirt saying: "Everything is better in Goa". Lies. Or as Alex always says "empty words". On the evening we went out for a simple dinner at a very nice indian restaurant and got talking to the owners brother... and everyone says that "Calangute is the place to be", "It's the best place in Goa"... Our eyes met across the table and we got a bit sad. But we both are way to stubborn to just take people for their word and settle so we decided to get a move on the next day (today). So this morning we had a quick breakfast and then took a taxi to Anjuna. We went to the first Lonely planet guest house and rented a scooter and are now in a little town called Mapsa looking for a tailor. Anjuna is quite allright but we are not going to stay here for long... who know's whats going to happen...

We'll figure something out.

Lots of love to you!!!

Hi people!

Phu! What a week we've had! Since we got back from the andamans it's been quite exhausting being Melissa Kron and Jacob Norstrom. Right now I (Melissa) am sitting in KIMS (Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences) library beeing very very quiet. I've allready been Schhht three times in five minutes even though no-one is here accept the woman who works here. Oh well. For those of you who doesn't know about our little situation don't worry. We came here directly after the seventeen hour train aka "The train journey from hell" were Jacob vomited and had diarrhoea a couple of times every hour. We managed to get through it and arrive in Trivandrum. And then hop in to a taxi that took us straight to KIMS. We arrived to these two big buildings (check the linked website above) that just looked amazing and we were so happy to finally be here. We went in and within five minutes Jacob was lying down in a real hospital bed (that actually fit him! Something you can never take for granted) surrounded by a very nice doktor and three nurses in the emergency room. Withing ten minutes they had allready recommended that we should stay for the night. We were slightly shocked but very relieved because by now the time was seven o'clock in the evening and Varkala (which is the next stop) is about an hour away from here. So we stayed for the night. After Jacob got antibiotics and IV we got shown up to the room. At first we thought we we're just taking a pit stop i a little lounge before we got to our room. But then we saw one big hospital bed and one small bed and understood that this was our room! The room was decorated with a leather couch and armchair, a flat screen tv, a mini-fridge, a table and some chairs and in the other end of the room there was a door to a very nice bathroom with a amazing shower. We can order food when ever we want and the staff here is just amazing and apparently people come to India, to Kerala, to this hospital to get all kinds of surgurys. So we're allmost or we are actually honoured to be here! Anyway we just talked to the doktor and we will be staying one more night (totally three nights) here and tomorrow we're off to Varkala. We'll keep you all posted on this hole thing! At the time Jacob is absolutely fine, not fully recovored and still a bit week (the man has lost about 5 kilos the past week).

So that is whats up with us! I'm glad you like the pictures! Now I should hurry back to Jacob!

Lots of love to you all!

There are about 13 more pictures we would like to put up but we can't sit here all day, right? Today we've been watching a movie at the Skywalker mall's newly opend cinema... as we did yesterday too. Now we are planning on seeing one tonight aswell before we jump on the train to Trivandrum!

Talk to you soon!

Lots of love

(And no, we aren't that tanned...)