Arambol, day three - February 10th, 2009

February 10th, 2009

Pretty easy here - we have figured out where to go and how, and have stopped being interested in shopping so can just say NO to all the hawkers along the street.

Today, I need money though, and there are no ATM's here - have to go to Siolim in a bus (taxi 400 R) Peter says he will go with me, but have to talk to Kevin who seems to have anxiety when IO am out of sie - though India does seem remarkably safe.

Tomorrow we have to get to Margao somehow - probably by taxi (R1200) and about 1.5 hour trip. We are spending more money than we thought but will be cheaper once we leave Goa, I think.

Still cannot understand the relationship/cost/value between things. Food and accommodation seem cheaper than "goods" -- a lot of "things" seem to cost the same here as at home and I don't think that really they should. It is like, in India, things cost what the market will bear, period.

This morning when we went to the beach they were putting a fishing boat (canoe) in the water but one guy just walked out with a fishing net and threw it out and came back to the beach with fish. Impressive - it is in this environment that one understands Francis of Assisis. Becuase it never made much sense to me in the snow and the cold - others might provide but not god, exactly - like the birds of the air. But if you live in a land where there is fish in the water, and coconut and mango on the trees. . . it seems different, though likely capitalism means that someone has the rights (and there fore others do not) to these things.