Has it really been a week already since we left Mumbai and my last post? Time flies in the typical tropical palmtree lined beaches you find on postcards and Boutny commercials, includind Goa's. That's where we've been, and that's why I haven't sent any postcards; I imagineyou can get the picture. Or do I need to specify on the fruit juices and cocktails etc? Not that I like them that much, I just need that frsh coconut or pineapple taste to extinguish the burning Hotttt Vindaloo food they have over here (I'm sure vindaloo is related to voodoo, can't be coincidence). Now I know for sure: going further south = the hotter food gets and more laid back people become. Goans are what you can expect from (sub)tropicans. Only one thing remains the same: the apparant gayness of about 75% of men. I never got used to seeing male 'couples' walking hand in hand... It's just that it doesn't fit in my mental schemes of how (fysical) behaviour towards others of the same sex are 'supposed' to be. And being unable to find cultural difference on sex/gender behaviour a reason or an explanation for the 'normality' of men holding hands etc., I just prefer to conclude that in India far more men are gay than the 10% in Europe. (Or what would you think when you see two patrolling policemen holding hands??). Also, when Indians say yes, they wobble their heads not vertically like we do, but kind of horizontally. And that movement, well... it's kind of gay too.
Naah, obviously there must be a cultural explanation. I'll think it over having my next cocktail of ... (tropical fruit and booze yet to be chosen) (isn't drinking tropical fruit cocktails kindof gay by the way?)