Day 25 - The Final Countdown

15:45
Not gonna lie - today’s been a breeze. There’s a small interdiction when Vicki is woken up at 07:15 by the kid in the room next door vociferously playing outside ours. She pops her head out the door, and has a swift and stern word with the parents, before quickly falling back to sleep. I, on the other hand, am awake, so crack on with the day.

I wake Vicki at 10:30, and we head out for some food a little later. Cow Corner - again. Their food’s just great, and it’s in a lovely setting. Vicki has another omelette, whilst I branch out into paratha with dhal territory. Delicious.

We head to Sea View for a beer / coffee, and both read for an hour. Honestly, it’s an incredibly slow paced, and yet incredibly attractive pace of life.

We head back to our room. More reading, more chilledness, a glass of wine for me in place of a snooze. I’m almost (ALMOST) a little tense about returning to the faster paced travelling life on Monday…

23:30
Suitably rested and refreshed, we head out around 17:30 for sunset and some food. We’ll head over to Palolem tomorrow to have a last dinner at Dropadi, so tonight we eat at our favourite of the Patnem eateries, Casa Fiesta. Couple of drinks as the sun goes down…

Vicki is hankering after a pizza, and has a more than acceptable version with anchovies and olives. I have an Achari chicken kebab from the tandoor which is fantastic. The marinade is similar to the tikka spice paste so commonly used, but includes some pickling spices, and some vinegar, which gives the final dish a great little hit of acidity, and some extra complexity in the flavour.

Around 19:00, we set off down the beach to Columb Bay, the location for tonight’s last party of the LHM event. The venue’s great. A real Balearic feel to it, and it’s got plenty of cool little hangout spots. Jim (one of my cooking buddies from yesterday) is spinning when we arrive, and is dropping a cool mix of chunk and groove.

The rest of the music is pretty eclectic. It’s neither of our favourite parties of the fortnight, but we enjoy ourselves. I don’t think this style of house is ever gonna move me in the way that some of the deeper and darker stuff that I normally play does. It’s cool enough to listen to, and fine for background. It’s more Vicki’s thing, but she’s not completely sold on tonight’s playlist. She has a few somewhat vigorous dances though.

We hang out with DD, Worz and Zoe, Milly and her other half (Dave?), and the time passes everso easily. It’s soon enough 23:00, and kicking out time.

There’s an after-party at a club a couple of clicks to the South of Patnem Beach, but we’re not tempted. We’re looking forward to a chilled day tomorrow, seeing Darron and Debs for a beer before they head off, and a banging dinner at Dropadi, and don’t want to do anything that might put these laidback plans at risk…もっと詳しく