Colonia de Braganza Resorts Calangute

... expected, as we took the journey in I thought I may be wrong as the palm tree shrouded scenery looked lovely but after an hour of arriving I was sitting in a restuarant, surrounded by an abundance of europeans with sun charred flesh, the guy sitting on the table next to me was wearing a wife beater with tattoos on his knuckles - just to give you an idea of the type of holiday maker we are dealing with!

The beach was chaos with a small stretch of sea set out ...

... een op klein kamertje met een bed waar we net met zijn tweeen inpasten. De eigenaar van het hostel, Gregory, is rooms-katholiek net als best veel anderen in Panaji. En dan was er nog Goldy, hij was een soort "kamenier". Het is een hele oude en heel vriendelijke man die ons heel goed heeft geholpen. Hij vond het dan ook heel erg dat wij na twee nachten weer weggingen. Maar bij Panaji lag in de buurt Old Goa. Dit is een plaatsje waar erg veel kerken ...

... sort of bribe. Rhian and I were absolutely speechless! At one point I shouted at them to stop but Rhian told me to shut up. She was right - if I'd have gone over there they'd have probably raped me! So, ladies and gentleman I give you Goa's police force! A fine, upstanding force, that is made up of power hungry thugs that are worse than children! It makes me so happy to know that they are doing their job properly and out ...

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The couple of days we spent there - never actually leaving the beach to venture out - was just what we needed. Pallolem's laid back atmosphere impressed us and although quite a tourist resort it never felt crowded or manic. People join in impromtu games of volleyball, cricket or football in the late afternoon and as the day slips into twilight you walk past the beach huts with their porch hammocks with the occasional Tom Sawyer strumming at the ...

Tag. Auf meinem Weg nach Goa habe ich mir fuer einen Tag Bombay angetan. Die Stadt ist ein Konglomerat an Armut und Reichtum mit Wenig dazwischen. Bevor man mit dem Bus das Innere der 16.4 Mio Einwohnerstadt erreicht, passiert man fuer mehr als eine Stunde Stadtviertel voller Slums. Die Viertel bestehen eigentlich aus normalen Wohnhausern oder Buerogebauden, nur dass eben jeder erdenkliche Raum zwischen den Haeusern und den Straszen mit Wellblech bedeckten Huetten zugebaut ...

... guy: "I don't quite think you understand what we are asking. Is there some sort of miscommunication here? Do you understand what we are describing to you? What seems to be the problem?" Oh ****. Now, the reason why I didn't just say no flat out was, aside from that not seeming like the best solution to an odd predicament, that Fred was already waiting to take me 45 minutes through jungle villages and random back roads to that northern beach. What do these ...

... I begin my beach-side retreat at a beach called Anjuna. I arrived after a great drive through the jungle and rural villages, it now just being dark. Wandered around for a while until I found a pleasant guest house with very a friendly who ran it, and their German Shepherd, Rex. Not yet having the lay of the land, I didn't venture too far my first night there, but got a glimpse of what I was getting into when the primary early evening attraction was a ...

... t until an hour in that we realised we had left the bloody passports behind, so we sheepishly returned to Maggies once more. In panjim we ate dominoes Pizza, and went to the famous church and temples and art galleries in Old Goa, which was a good day out and made us feel good about ourselves. Benaulim, a local fishing village was our next stop, with Colva a moped ride away. Here we got hounded by ...

... recesses of my ears to clean out the very visible (to his eyes) dirt and filth that has accumulated. Oddly enough they carry little books full of testimonials written by tourists in many languages about how good the procedure feels and how much better they could hear afterwards. Never stick anything in your ear except your elbow. We have now moved on to a much quiter beach in south Goa called Agonda. We are staying right on the edge of the ...

... left. We walked to Colaba Causeway and ventured into the big and bustling Leopolds Cafe, described in our Lonely Planet guide as the travellers favourite haunt in Mumbai, we ate some food, had a few drinks and swifly moved on! We visited the huge magnificent Taj Mahal Hotel located on the waterfront, we took a lift to the topfloor, intending to get a drink in their rooftop restaurant, we just glanced at the menu and in no time we were on our way back down 19floors in the lift ...