It's another Internet Cafe, in another part of India, and I'm already bored with the beach and shopping. Only because the I've been lying on the beach for more than 5 days now, and shopping on streets in which one has to constantly watch one's toes and back and wallet and bag is just not my cup of tea. All the horning, all the almost-knocking you down vehicles, all the dust and dirt that wafts up as they pass, the hello-konichiwa-where-you-from-China/Korea/Japan? Where from? Where from? Hello, look-see-no-charge.
I liked yesterday the most though. We spent most of the morning (Kah Shin, Nuria and I) wandering around the place looking for a nice breakfast spot. After a while, we just decided to head to Baga Beach for brunch.
We ended up spending most of the day at SWALLY'S. It's a quiet beach shack (just one of many, many, many beach shacks in this place) and we had lunch there. We sat on the deckchairs after that and each one of us had a massage. The lady who gave us the massage was EXCELLENT. This was the first massage that Nuria and I (normally massage-hating people) actually enjoyed. Maybe it's cause we're on holiday, maybe because it was Rs. 400 (approximately $16) for an hour.
Then Leigh and Bertie joined us. Bertie is the only French guy who came with us this time. Marine is off travelling the rest of India with her Father, and our favourite friend Romain is now safely back in France, where he should no longer be feeling depressed. Nor cynical (you hear me!?).
At night we all had dinner at TITO'S, which is supposedly one of India's best clubs/bar/restaurant. I have to agree with the food being great, I wouldn't know about the clubs though (it owns another one down the same road called MAMBO - it's something like a Zouk-Phuture kinda thing) cause we're all not clubbers (or they aren't, maybe me and Bertie). But the food was the best I've had since coming to Goa, because I didn't bother experimenting and face the subsequent disappointment, but went straight for the STEAK. Which came with MASHED POTATOES, which I've been hoping to have for the longest time here but haven't been able to find.
It's also been like a CALAMARI-experiment here, Nuria and I just keep eating calamari at most of the restaurants we sit at. It's like a strange thing I have to do while on holiday. I did it once in Thailand with the Spaghetti Bolognese, going from place to place eating the same dish.
After we had coffee at BARISTA'S. It's their version of Coffee Bean (a less successful Starbucks, the Starbucks equivalent in India is Cafe Coffee Day). Then it was back to the hotel rooms for all of us.
This morning we had breakfast then bid goodbye to Kash. She's taking a flight back to Ahmedabad in order to celebrate Holi with the MICAns. We had breakfast at a German Bakery. I don't know the fascination with German Bakeries, but I can tell you that none of them are German in anyway nor very nice.
There's something strange about the HASH BROWNS in this country as well, all of them are cooked in a similar fashion to Sweet-and-Sour pork. And they're neither sweet nor very sour. Just salty. And tangy.
And then Kash left. And Leigh and Bertie left for the city to buy furniture, Nuria went to walk on her own, and after walking the entire place several times, I find myself heading back to the hotel, to NUA. But not before checking my email and wondering what to do about the homework I'm supposed to hand in.
Nuria and I will be leaving here tomorrow morning, taking a 24-hour bus-ride back to Ahmedabad. Bertie and Leigh will be taking a flight back 2 days later.
We've seen PALOLEM, COLVA, ANJUNA and now BAGA. I'm going back to my room now to play with the PSP and read a book. And a long long long dump. If you need to contact me, wait till I'm back in Ahmedabad, the phones don't work so well here.
p.s. I have lots of photos.
2 comments:
I thought it couldn't simply be pure coincidence that Goa keeps popping up in things I'm reading and shows I watch. I thought maybe it's a place I really really need to visit. It doesn't seem so now. Your descriptions sound like a boring weekend at Batam.
Boy, save me, sian ji bua is the word. I can't stop working and they've closed off crunchyroll.
Eh, I don't think you'll like it much. But then again, there are different beaches along the way and each one has it's own benefits.
The quietest one is Carevela (I think), or the one very near Colva, that one is worth seeing cause like nobody around one and then the waves in the sunset is nice.
But then there was something really really fun which I couldn't report for fear of Parents freaking out. We rented Scooters. And I had to pillion someone behind me, and I also had to bribe an Indian traffic cop Rs. 500 ($20) for not having a license. Heh.
More later. Try other anime sites lah. Why can't you stop working anyway?
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