@optimist 3 December 2021 more from that month

Once in Goa my wife and I were given the keys to a paid hotel room and told that we could stay there for two weeks while its guest, our friend's mother, lived in our house with her son. So we swapped houses, but no one at the hotel knew we were living illegally. We went to free breakfasts, swam in the pool, invited friends over, everyone thought we were real hotel guests. When it was time for our friend's mom to check out of the hotel and go to Russia, everyone was very surprised, but who had been living in that room all this time? It was a funny story that we still remember with laughter. The photo is the view from our room. India, Goa, Candolim, 2013.