{"id":557,"date":"2011-08-19T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/?p=557"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:52:31","slug":"its-raining-cats-and-dogs-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/destinations\/asia\/its-raining-cats-and-dogs-in-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Raining Cats and Dogs in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spend two days at Benaulim. Not much going on here as it’s out of season: most places such as markets and beach huts are closed. It’s a pleasant enough village nonetheless and the local wine shop sells the quart of beer for 60INR with 5INR deposit on the bottle. Antonette’s Guest House (Jack Corner, House #1695, Vas Waddo) is in the middle of the palms and has clean rooms. We intend to spend a day at the beach but it starts to rain heavily. Someone has abandoned 5 puppies and a kitten by the road side and we cannot ignore their yelping as the rain batters down on them. We find them some shelter under an unoccupied palm-hut and wish them well. The rest of our time is spent indoors due to heavy rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One highlight is that we find a restaurant with a “George Clooney” Lavazza coffee machine and we indulge in a couple of these. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spend two days at Benaulim. Not much going on here as it’s out of season: most places such as markets and beach huts are closed. It’s a pleasant enough village nonetheless and the local wine shop sells the quart of beer for 60INR with 5INR deposit on the bottle. Antonette’s Guest House (Jack Corner, House #1695, Vas Waddo) is in the middle of the palms and has clean rooms. We intend to spend a day at the beach but it starts to rain heavily. Someone has abandoned 5 puppies and a kitten by the road side and we cannot ignore their yelping as the rain batters down on them. We find them some shelter under an unoccupied palm-hut and wish them well. The rest of our time is spent indoors due to heavy rain. One highlight is that we find a restaurant with a “George Clooney” Lavazza coffee machine and we indulge in a couple of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,33],"tags":[61,59,51,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2fortheroad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}