Kismat Mahal
Travel Blogs from Calangute
Happy New Year 2012!!!
... bbq King Fish with chips, salad, naan and raita...AMAZING! Also a bargain when it cost less than a tenner with two double gin and tonics thrown in! Then we danced our way down the beach from there, stopping in at various places for drink! And so with the music blaring, the beach swarming and a few of the old hippies (clearly not left since 1964) partying the night away in their own little world we entered into 2012.
Not to ...
The lessons
... gibt es jeweils einen halbtags ausflug irgendwohin. Huuuuu heute waren wir in palolem einem wunderbaren strand weiter südlich won hier weiteres von diesem trip gibts dann später. aber auch sonst gibts für mich viele lessons hier. Immer dienstag und donnerstag morgenfrüh ist yoga auf der terasse angesagt um 6.30!!! uuuuh. aber it s a good start into the day! da kann man wirklich die sonne grüssen. :D
und natürlich indisch essen. :D ist gar nicht ...
24 hour travelling
... our longest journey,
(14 hours). We found our beds/seats and got ourselves comfortable, even
trying some train food which was very yummy. After being squished in a
car for 5 hours we all enjoyed stretching out on our beds, my wee lie
down turned into a 3 hour sleep whilst the others napped and read.
Awoken at 7pm with our dinner we all sat and enjoyed another lovely
meal. Every day seems to be ...
Brings tears to the eyes
... was shared with everybody. The following day a chicken and a goat were to be sacrificed and the meat shared with the congregation. We met a young boy who attempted to explain all the aspects and purpose of what was going on for fear of getting the story wrong I'm not going to try and elaborate on why these people chose to do this. The devotion, the enduring of pain and discomfort and the sheer belief that what they were about to undertake was of benefit truly bought tears to my eyes. ...
The real beach daze...
... driver chugged me along rugged pot-holed roads until we finally got to Morjim beach. Mansie and Anna-Lou had put me in touch with some friends of theirs who run a beach restaurant and have some shacks, and suggested rocking up there. And so I ended up at Pink Orange, probably one of the nicest, simplest places on the whole north Goa coast. And they just so happened to have a beach-front shack empty and open for me to stay in. Gotta love it ...
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