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A Wild Wedding Week

A Wild Wedding Week

A proper soaking...a good bit of drinking...and some sweet "family" time

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Jan 17, 2024
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Where have I been? What have I been up to?

Where to begin?

Eggs, warm coconut milk….every bride’s dream…

It has been a very busy week, and weekend, with various wedding-related gatherings, on top of zipping about to-and-fro on the moto around South Goa…lots of socializing, and lots of eating, with a good bit of drinking thrown in. Karaoke. High tea with Madame. Beach time.

I’ve been so wrapped up in Goa that didn’t even get a Weekend Confidential written this week – the first time I’ve missed that. Travel can get in the way of writing about travel. Apologies to my most supportive subscribers. I’ll make it up to you.

A Goan Catholic wedding is a complicated thing, and as with weddings everywhere, there were several events leading up to it, and after it, and I didn’t get to all of them. I was spared the three-hour wedding mass, all in Konkani, the indecipherable local language; but I got my fill of celebrations nonetheless – figuratively and literally. Goans love to eat, and a good part…

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