
I know the two kids of the people that made Rhubarb and Custard. The son's a crusty traveller who had a huge army truck and some sound system that he just added to the main rig at indoor teknivals as opposed to doing his own parties.
The daughter's an utter fraggle who we first met in San Fran where she was living with acid dealers and a sound system. She came back to London and after a few years of the teknival scene she's now become a very high-powered corporate lawyer.
Both were bang into the Ket.
So both their kids ended up being bang into psychedelics - going to SF for the acid or India for the K.
Go to Kozhikode Beach. About 2 clicks from the centre of town, lots of nice seafood.
After the post-Castlemorton clampdown and the Criminal Justice Bill, loads of crusty travellers stayed in Blighty and got smack {and some also got crack} habits. But those of us who went to Europe creating the Teknival scene were all doing K.
PS if you do go to the beach, post a photo. Oh, and find out how much they're charging for lobsters now.
About 20 years ago in Anjuna/Chapora in Goa {the two cheapest beaches} we could get lobsters for a fiver each. I'd order the day before {cos it would mostly be off season when I was there} and give them a bottle of Chablis I'd brought out so they could put it in the fridge for me, and arrange to come at 7pm the next day.
But when a decade ago I asked my goan mate with a restaurant, Jaocinto, how much it would cost for a lobster, they were saying £30 or more. {When he sold great seafood like calamari, pomfret or king fish, in lemon butter or garlic sauce with chips for around £2.50-£3.50}
See whether Calicut off season is even better.
Last time I was in Kerala, at Kovalam beach {and Varkala beach} normal prawns were £6 and giant ones were a tenner a plate but were sublime.
If you're gonna seafood it up on your day off, get a bottle of French white at duty free on the way out, and when you find a restaurant with seafood you want, get them to chill the bottle while you enjoy the beach for a couple of hours.
If they do fish or crab soup, get a bowl as a starter.
Though be aware that it'll probably be monsooning while you're there. But it's lush swimming in the warm Indian ocean when it's monsooning.
Last edited by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult; 06-21-2024 at 01:37 PM.
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