Goa
Travel Blogs from Goa, India
India here we are!
... !?!?!? Scum class on the train! So Goa it was and this is where all our travel plans for India went totally out the window...... We arrived in Goa ago with the intention of staying a week to ten days. But just like a blink of an ...
Bedbugs and saints
... vibe about it. Some of the streets resembled Lisbon or Havana more than the views we were accustomed to in India. We also made the trip to Old Goa where we saw the somewhat dessicated body of St. Francis Xavier, who died over 300 years ago and ...
GOA
... at the train station at least an hour before (as is advised) bought goodies for journey and waited for The Goa Express!! India's version of express and mine are obviously two completely different meanings. We got talking to Rob a traveler from England ...
Beaches, Burning Rubber and Burning it in!!
... feeling the best. I say almost veggie because there was a spider in the bowl with the Garlic Nan (Our first nan bread in India). Erica's Cheese Butter Masala was good thought!. Got back and drank a few beers on the Veranda, sweating like you have never ...
Lookey, lookey, lookey..............
We went for an early morning stroll down the beach before heading for the travel agents who said they may be able to get us on a train if we pay them extra money for an even more restrictive secret travel agent risk. We have no option really and its ...
Another bizarre day on a Goan Beach
... front of our table, casually gathered up his parachute, sat down at the next table and ordered a large beer, if we weren't in India I might have looked twice. Heading back to our hut on the bike we decided to eat at the 'Seahorse' again ...
Beach bums
Leaving Hampi and heading to the beaches of Goa. Let's get this party started! The first couple of hours we rode standing by the doors of the passenger carriage, eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor as the locals did. Then we transferred to ...
Fights and Fireworks. Classic New Years Eve!
... . I recon he'll be buying a house here:) I have a flight to Singapore on Jan 10th. I've had it with the sightseeing in India. There is a lot more to see of course, but I'm exhausted. I've seen a lot. I've had all the spicy food I can take. I've ...
Lobsters and white pointers
... I'm not into getting the white pointers out in public. Fine if you want to but I don't think it's acceptable in a country like India where their culture requires women to remain covered. I know, you might think I 've got double standards as I wore my ...
India? Or Portugal?
... hours behind in our travel time, but the scenery made up for it. As we passed from Maharashtra state into Goa, the landscape became increasingly greener, despite the dry weather, and high rises were replaced with brightly coloured adobe ...
Christmas in Goa
We're now at the end of 10 lovely days by the sea in Goa! Spending Christmas in Goa is a real cliche of travel in India, but it had to be done! It was strange arriving here at first - after the towns we'd visited in Southern India, this was the first ...
Bye bye Bombay, Bombay bye bye....
... seen him so cross as he told the man, amidst all the swearing, that he should wear a mask and hold a gun!! Anyhow we are in Goa now - the rain is displeasing us although we've managed to book into a great hotel with a pool for only 6 quid a night for ...
A Tenner for a Henna?
Our last full day in the peaceful palolem, we will be so sad to leave this place, the beach and our sunbeds (we haven't quite acheived the base tan Andrew has been so intently working on) and get those heavy backpacks on ...
Elephants, Saris and Perverts
... The market symbolises the impact package tourism has had on north Goa. The market was full of stalls selling overpriced tatty 'I Love Goa' T shirts, along with badly made jewellery, fake designer gear, very dodgy fags (it might say Marlboro on the pack ...
Moo-ving, Just Keep Moo-ving!
... worried by my simplified sentences and 'East is East' accent!! Earlier this week saw the Twenty20 cricket World Cup final with India v Pakistan so we made a trip to the bar for that and Charlie's newfound cricket knowledge came in handy as we celebrated ...
Chillin' in South Goa
Well, here we are soaking up the sun in the former Portuguese enclave. Goa has totally different character to the rest of India, with whitewashed houses, lush palm groves and paddy fields. It is a great escape from the madness of the city and the long ...
Tsunami Disaster
Hazel and I would like to thank all of you for your e-mails of concern. We both have been very lucky, as Officials said the estimated toll from the disaster now surpassed 80,000 dead. We have returned to Paoleum in South Gos where there has been high ...
Bollywood Dreams & Goa Coconut Huts
... businesses that recycle just about every kind of material you can imagine. After Mumbai, the plan was to venture into central India and participate in a 10 day silent meditation course. Well, apparently the program is quite good at this because ...
What 's next?
What's next? Off to Singapore for my birthday and then New Zealand for a month, followed by two months in Australia. It's been 3 months since I left. I feel like I'm closing a chapter. It hasn't been a vacation in the "Kick back and relax" sort of ...
Welcome to Goa
... didnt get the sense they just wanted more money off you and were genuinly pleased to have you and were interested in your thoughts about India and UK. We landed at our 'tree huts' and although basic they had sea views were built on stilts rather than in a ...
Go-Ahhhhhhh
... accidentally stumbled into the restaurant known to have the best chef in the state of Goa on my first night here. Well the point of coming back to India a second time is to see the south. Next stop, more south than here I guess... ...
Ganesh goes surfing
... "Ahh Clifton BS8? Redland BS6, St George, Bedminster, Knowle, I have friends in all these places" I was speechless, thinking, I'm in India listening to a homeless man recite the areas and postcodes of Bristol, a city, thanks to our lack of premiership ...
Ole, its Stevo the bullfighter
... early monsoon. I do not know what we would have done if we hadn't taken the flight option from Beijing meaning we hit India a month early. It was to Lady E's delight that having a romantic stroll down the beach to see another Indian child crapping in the ...
The Stevo shopping experience
... lie to cover the fact she wants to spend the whole lot on an excessive Kingfisher and honey brandy bashing session and stay in Goa. If only the world knew how her evil mind works!!! Erica Edit: All learned from you Stevo. I also decided ...
In the country of kings
A... We've made it to those famous Goan beaches at last, after a pretty hectic couple of weeks charging round the Maharajas forts and palaces of Rajasthan. The season here doesn't start until October, which means it's all pretty quiet at the moment. ...
Dentists, Waiters...and Sex Police?
... of thing goes on full-time with humans in Thailand and Cambodia, maybe even in the Philippines. What these countries need – India just for the animals – is sex police. Elenka would be a good choice to head this mutli-national effort. Enough ...
Goa - Anjuna - Day 9
Arrived in Anjuna early this morning from Arambol. Managed to get a room really quickly in another cheap guest house called Manaili's which was really lucky as it was the last room avaliable. I came to Anjuna with my Italian friend so we shared this last ...
Beaches, booze and meat - woo hoo!
OK so we felt that we cheated India by coming to Goa - but we are having so much fun! The 40hr journey was hell, slow trains, very hot sweaty carriages but very friendly people offering us everything from food to chewing tobacco to meths (dont ...
Lunch from an insiders point of view !!
... about his parties and showed us picutres of the things he has done – amazing guy totally content with his life here in India, definitely an interesting insight into laid back hippy life ! Going to chill the rest of the day we got sunburnt yest and ...

