Poor Bob has gone down with the Patnem cold and cough plus a slight fever. Yesterday he stayed in the room ,where it was cool, most of the day, drinking ginger, honey and lemon tea and dosing paracetemol when he wasn’t sleeping. Today he was much better and came down the beach for the morning but tonight by about 9 he was feverish again….. it’s been going around everyone. Hopefully I won’t get it. 

Last night we ate at the new little restaurant just down the road. It is built on the site of the hilariously inappropriately named Satine Bar which was a decrepit hot pink and mildew coloured cowshed bar frequented by the odd rickshaw driver….. tiny and dark….. very unsavoury. It has been reborn as a shining, white, spotlessly clean open kitchen place. We had a lovely dinner: 2 g&ts for me, Bob had 2 Corona beers, he had chicken on arabiatta pasta, I had lentil dal with rice and salad. It all came to £9. 

Tonight we went to Nada Brahma beach restaurant to the Monday night film. It was ‘Ferrari’ starring Adam Driver. We enjoyed it very much although it was a bit like The House of Gucci in many ways. Still, we enjoyed our dinner and drinks watching the movie. As I mentioned, Bob was feeling rough by the end, and we got lucky and picked up a tuk right outside which got us home in minutes. More paracetemol for Bob and an early night.