Photo - Alby's toilet

I couldn't leave our Colva holiday without mentioning Alby's toilet. Alby is a lovely Indian women who has tables in front of her house and serves great food. People who go there to eat tend to be people that have been going to Goa for many years. If you tell her in the morning what you want to eat that night, she will go to the market, buy it fresh and marinade it all day in Goan spices. Her prawns, calamari and shark are excellent. The only downside is the toilet. As you can see it is a doubler. It is an Indian squat toilet so you don't just sit on it. You have to climb up onto the toilet and squat over it. There is a big gap between the top of the door and the ceiling,so once you climb up onto the toilet you can see everyone sitting at their tables eating their food!. One consolation is that there aren't any pigs under the toilet.
This is still common in rural India and Colin reckons that is where the expression 'an auld shitty stick comes from. When you go into these toilets there is normally a stick at the door. It is a good idea to take this stick with you when you go to squat on the toilet, especially if you have to open your bowels because if no one has used it for a few days and the pigs are hungry, their snouts will come up through the toilet to grab what they see as food. You then have to whack their snouts to stop them from grabbing at your motion.