We spent 2 very chilled weeks at Dr Franklin's Panchakarma retreat in the Kerelan coconut trees. (Cos clearly we needed a holiday within a holiday?!) Sadly Harry missed out on the ayurveda treatments and yoga due to his very special and unique backside issues. But a pure veg diet and just being there did wonders, in fact annoyingly he lost more weight than any of the people in there. I meanwhile diligently went to yoga most mornings at 6:30am and endured all manner of oil treatments only to emerge at the end of 2 weeks with mild acne, a rice pot and feeling tired and emotional! |
| the very peaceful gardens which we flopped about in hammocks |
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| Harry absorbed the teachings of yoga at a leisurely pace, while I went to the classes! |
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| the 'steam bath'... |
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| ...a somewhat heath robinson cupboard, with a kettle heater and wooden stool to sit on! |
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| Terry made lots of friends. |
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| Hanuman, the half monkey, half man god helping us on our journey. |
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| in just 2 weeks I went from this to... |
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| ... this! So after 2 weeks of clean living we decided to head back north to Alex and Lucy and got straight back into long Goan lunches on the beach! |
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| beautiful ancient banyan tree on the way to lunch |
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| strange creatures dwell in these woods... |
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| sunset, after long lunch |
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| I bought Harry some sandlewood beads, given he is so working the ethnic look this year. We now have 4 kgs extra to lug around in our ruck sack. |
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| 'La Plage' restaurant - best chocolate pud ever! |
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| Parting cuddles as we left goa, to catch overnight train back to Mumbai and head to Oz... |
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