Yesterday we moved from Bogmallo Beach Resort, due to the hotel being booked solid, to The Nanutel in the middle of Margao, quite close to the stadium for tonight's game between Goa and Mumbai. This is a very basic hotel and we are only here for one more night. Tonight we start a hectic run of six games in 10 days, Goa, Pune, Mumbai, Guwahati, Goa and Chennai on the 26th Nivember. So tomorrow afternoon we fly again and this time back up to Pune for their game against Delhi. Zico's team Goa really need another home win tonight to keep up any hope of making the top four at the end of the league programme. A top four slot gets them into the semi finals where we know anything could happen. Tonight will be a full house and the atmosphere should be fabulous. Last night we dined out at Martin's Corner, a very popular restaurant which is always on our list of places to eat whenever we are in Goa. After dinner we had a party to attend back at the hotel in the Zodiac Bar, it was a birthday party for Shiva Kumar Nanjappa, Senior Audio on our crew. Fair play to him he invited all the crew, and their families if they were present in Goa, and picked up the tab at the end of a really great evening. Shiva Kumar you are a top fella and a gentleman!
The currency crisis has not got any better, nearly all ATMs are 'out of cash' so are some of the banks and the ones with money still have massive queues outside. Thank goodness for a credit card. The problem should ease in a few more days so they say, but I imagine it will be a lot longer before anything returns remotely back to whatever is taken for 'normal' over here!
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AuthorRussell Osman is a former England & Ipswich Footballer, 4 Handicap Golfer and Father of 3. Archives
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