Why we close for the monsoon

From June the sea comes up to where the tables are and the shacks come down — ours included, because the licence runs October to May and because a beach shack in July is a wet frame with nobody in it. We rebuild in September. If you want Agonda in the rain, come and stay in the house behind, and expect the road to flood.

Written from the verandah, with a cup of chai going cold.