Palolem, Goa

Howdy. Just a quick update - hopefully stick up a load of pics and some more details in the very near future. We went to a town called Aurangabad from Nasik and ended up staying for three nights. While a little grotty, we stayed in a great place with a nice restaurant and visited the nearby World Hertitage site at Ellora. The site consists of about 30 caves carved into the rock, some of which are pretty impressive. We also visited the "mini taj mahal", an exact replica of the real thing and fairly impressive in it's own right. After Aurangabad we travelled south to Pune and stayed for a night before getting a night train down to Goa. The train was fine, we shared a cabin with a young Indian couple and their daughter. We headed to Benaulim beach as soon as we arrived but it seemed pretty deserted so we are now in Palolem. The bus journey was an incredible experience, at one point it would have been physically impossible to squeeze another person on board (there were three people hanging out of the door and I virtually had an Indian man on my lap!) To be honest, we were a little underwhelmed upon arrival - the beach is palm fringed and attractive, but hardly pristine. The accommodation leaves a little to be desired and travellers out number Indians by three to one at least (but then we haven't eaten or showered or slept much for 24 hours, so maybe our opinions will change!). More coming very soon...promise...