Tim, It all depends on your body's heat-management system. Over the years, mine has got pretty adjusted.
More than the high temperatures, it's the humidity that makes the Goa weather what it is. Hence, there's little difference even in-shade temperatures. To keep cool, just shower down twice a day. Even a couple of jugs of water (what with the water shortages, except in the hotels!) make a world of a difference. Somethings not thinking about the weather helps. Not that it changes the reality, but it helps to extend one's tolerance to the reality. Weather apart, this is a nice time of the year, as Daniel points out. The ripening of such a wide variety of fruit (mangoes, jackfruit, kan'tta, chu'nna, rose apples, and so much more) sort of compensates. Calangute beach comes alive. So do others like Miramar. Each has a different character. For a change, there are more locals than tourists. You can't walk 50 metres without meeting someone you know... or so it seems. On another front, would anyone agree that the month-of-May Bomboicar season has shrunken? (Incidentally, I think Peter Nazareth's fascinating though-dated anthology of Goan writing has an essay on the Bomboicar. Peter, what about an update by way of a new anthology?) Looks like fewer Bomboicars are coming down, and they're less visible than they once were in the month of May. Instead, a lot more expats now choose December as the homing-time. In my younger days, Bomboicars and May went hand-in-hand... at least in our parts of emigration-oriented Bardez. FN > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:44:52 +0000 > From: "Tim de Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Merry Month Of May. > > Daniel this sounds like fun. > > My experience of May weather was not so exciting. I was there in 1998 with > two of my boys to celebrate my Dad's 90th birthday (May 25). Everyone was > very uncomfortable. We nevertheless had fun. > > But I can share one experience with you. The fans were next to useless. When > the electricity was working, all that the fans did was blow hot air. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
