Dropping out of India for 2 Weeks
Well Goa was certainly the rest stop we needed, after 6 weeks of what seemed like getting on and off trains and walking miles with our packs, Goa was heaven.
Goa is the most Western part of India for sure, everyone except the people working in the shops and cafes are western so although it doesn't really feel like India it was just the break from India that we needed.
The beginning of our Goa trip started a little rocky, sick and stuck in Benaulim, it seemed that Goa wasn't really that amazing, until we rented a scooter and the holiday really took off. Riding a scooter in India is the best feeling, the wind blowing through your hair, the smell of cow dung and piss watered down, bugs hitting your teeth and the open road in front of you. Having your own transport in India cuts your stress in half, no more haggling over auto fares (haggling so fierce I am surprised it doesn't end in blows), being able to stop as often as your like, toilet breaks on command and of course the freedom to ride for an hour and half just to have porridge.
You may not believe it, but our stint of Tamil Nadu and Kerala had us well and truly over Indian food, so Goa was all about the beaches and the food, because everything is prepared fresh here it takes about an hour for your order to arrive for every meal so here's how our days went, get up about 8am, ride 20 minutes to our favorite breakfast place at a quite beach called Agonda which the tourist industry has not discovered fully as yet. Order a huge bowl of fresh fruit salad topped with grated fresh coconut and honey with a carrot and pineapple juice, wait an hour for food, eat, walk along the beach, swim, reading and then have to prepare for lunch, which is at Sonia World Food, where we order and wait another hour for home made Hommus topped with fried Mushrooms and onions, with a pool of tahini in the middle eaten with freshly baked lafa bread. In this cafe we have our usual table under fan in a small cushion room, we spread out and read our books all afternoon, another swim, cold shower in our open air bathroom and then dinner, order, wait another hour, and eat fish salad in a lime dressing, followed by chili beans and tortilla bread, while sipping a pomegranate cocktail...heaven
For all the mum's and general worry warts at home, riding a scooter in Goa is fine, Goan's although at times seeming like they have been seriously sun affected actually drive pretty well, we didn't have any scrapes and only got booked by the police once for not wearing our helmets. Even nana t usually to be found behind knitting needles while complaining about my aching joints learnt to ride and am thinking about getting a scooter at home, after all if you ride in India you can ride anywhere.
Goa is the most Western part of India for sure, everyone except the people working in the shops and cafes are western so although it doesn't really feel like India it was just the break from India that we needed.
The beginning of our Goa trip started a little rocky, sick and stuck in Benaulim, it seemed that Goa wasn't really that amazing, until we rented a scooter and the holiday really took off. Riding a scooter in India is the best feeling, the wind blowing through your hair, the smell of cow dung and piss watered down, bugs hitting your teeth and the open road in front of you. Having your own transport in India cuts your stress in half, no more haggling over auto fares (haggling so fierce I am surprised it doesn't end in blows), being able to stop as often as your like, toilet breaks on command and of course the freedom to ride for an hour and half just to have porridge.
You may not believe it, but our stint of Tamil Nadu and Kerala had us well and truly over Indian food, so Goa was all about the beaches and the food, because everything is prepared fresh here it takes about an hour for your order to arrive for every meal so here's how our days went, get up about 8am, ride 20 minutes to our favorite breakfast place at a quite beach called Agonda which the tourist industry has not discovered fully as yet. Order a huge bowl of fresh fruit salad topped with grated fresh coconut and honey with a carrot and pineapple juice, wait an hour for food, eat, walk along the beach, swim, reading and then have to prepare for lunch, which is at Sonia World Food, where we order and wait another hour for home made Hommus topped with fried Mushrooms and onions, with a pool of tahini in the middle eaten with freshly baked lafa bread. In this cafe we have our usual table under fan in a small cushion room, we spread out and read our books all afternoon, another swim, cold shower in our open air bathroom and then dinner, order, wait another hour, and eat fish salad in a lime dressing, followed by chili beans and tortilla bread, while sipping a pomegranate cocktail...heaven
For all the mum's and general worry warts at home, riding a scooter in Goa is fine, Goan's although at times seeming like they have been seriously sun affected actually drive pretty well, we didn't have any scrapes and only got booked by the police once for not wearing our helmets. Even nana t usually to be found behind knitting needles while complaining about my aching joints learnt to ride and am thinking about getting a scooter at home, after all if you ride in India you can ride anywhere.
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