Hotel Aroma Executive Panaji

... harbour, where the fishing boats were loading and unloading, fish drying in the sun, great crates being loaded onto larger ships, people milling about in the morning sun, looking at us intently from under colourful attires from behind great stacks of painter wicker baskets. <br><br>There was not much to see, so we walked back, past the market, everybody trying to sell us green clementines (which are probably sweeter than the orange ones in England), apples, bananas and ...

... the 1500's, so cue a day of uber culture and walking (lots of walking!)<br><br><br>We started at Basilica Bom Jesus which is basically a massive Catholic Cathedral and houses the tomb of St Francis Xavier, it's quite touristy as expected but when in the capital and all that..<br><br><br>Next up was the Ghandi Circle (a roundabout with Ghandi statue) where we then headed left over to the Viceroy Gate and the ferry crossing, i'll try not to ...

... Kousicek, nez vylezes na plaz, je "Magic Park", yoga, reiki a meditace, healing a umelecka zotavovna. Uctujou na tejden studovani mysli, stani na hlave a chodeni po vohni, osum set americkej dolaru.V tom je stricktly vegetarianska strava(ani ne vajicko) a muzes spat v hemoku nebo na rakosovy matraci na zemi. Ale muzu rict, zarucene tam rusove nejsou. Slysel sem jenom nemcinu a anglictinu. Jednou sme se tam staveli na ovocnej salat na ceste z plaze ...

... Porteguese influence (they ruled the province from 1510 to 1961) can be clearly seen in the architecture, and we stayed in the old Porteguese area of the city. Lots of little winding streets and overhanging balconies. Goa has long history as a tourist destination and we found the accomodation and food to be top notch. Also, the fact ...

... in good time in order that I then have plenty of time to decide what has to come back out again!! a slight weight problem!! nothing new!!and i just know my rucksack will be hellish but despite all I refuse to leave my feather pillow behind...or the cockroach spray...definite essentials.... no arguments!! will update more nearer the time... really looking forward to getting away from Goa now and doing something!!

... just a bit of imagination! Some were really cool and some people had forgotten to cover some parts of their body...... The parade was led by the same people who were entertaining last night. They had great costumes! 2 people were walking on stilts holding flags and some guys had made a rolling musical box of some sort out of 2 bikes. There were some French guys, I think, all dressed up as pirates who were playing ...

... ended up in an indian restaurant where I had an indian pizza. This was a mistake as the following morning I was back to square one feeling rotten. We took a local bus out to Old Goa which was a fascinating place full of churches. I alternated between the churches and the suprisingly clean toilet. That evening we jumped on an overnight bus to Mumbai (Bombay).

... knows more about any bizarre topic you can come up with than you might think humanly possible. Spanish bullfighting techniques, Dutch cities near my hometown, Nijmegen, and their history as well as the deeper meaning behind their names, French popmusic, science, film, sports. A walking encyclopedia, trivia virtuoso and more eccentric than a cross between Nina Hagen and Stephen Hawking. He guides biological country walks in the area and even though it sounds boring we can't resist ...

... Elizabeth (our Tibet-Nepal traveling companion...remember our Princess??) who just made it at 7:30pm on the 31st! What a great night! We brought in the bells at a Scottish owned bar on the beach sporting a few Scots in kilts of course and then went on to a beach party until the wee hours, a good night was had by all. All in all, we never really done much here except work on our ...

... stop and have a drink and chat to Joseph the owner for a little while, order fillet steak for tomorrow's dinner and walk back to our room. At night we are told Mackies Saturday Night Market in Baga is where it is all happening, but there is also a carnival on which will last for 4 days; today is the first day. So we take a rikshaw to Baga and figure we will see the carnival tomorrow. The Saturday night market is busy. There are live ...