Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Partying In Goa

Goa is considered the party central of India, tell anyone your going there and immediately images of beach raves, acid and hippies comes to mind, although it is more like a middle class tourist resort most of the time, we did attend a few good parties.

Our first party started at about 2am, and being the vigilant types we are, we were both fast asleep and were woken by a very loud and random selection of dance music, trance, and pop followed by a cheering crowd every time a song ended. After our New Years fizzler we both leaped out of our bed at Frog's hollow (the place we were staying - actually called Chuckies but we remained it as for our whole stay we were watched over by several frogs - one in our wardrobe and one in the bathroom). Dressed and ready for anything we walked down to the beach with the another guest who had been woken up, we were going to dance, she was about 50 and going to complain about the noise which had kept her 75 year old mother awake.

Walking up to the car park that led to the beach, we were confronted by the spectacular site of six Indian boys dancing around two cars, drunk as skunks and cheering to the music of their car stereo's, as soon as we appeared they smartly packed themselves up and drove away, not wanting to look like complete nongs we walked down to the beach and dipped our feet in the water at 4am pretending to be early risers out for a walk.

Our second party was a little more inclusive, after fleeing Benaulim on our bike we ended up at Palolem which is in the very south of Goa, this party was on the 7th of Jan a significant date, being cold and depressed in Ooty for my birthday I decided I would postpone it until Jan the 7th. Of course I had completely forgotten about it but our favorite son Greggie G didn't. In Palolem we had the good fortune to meet group of Israeli’s who were staying in our shack compound, on our second night they invited us to a BBQ party, which was amazing, with little more than foil, a few spoons, a dish an a BBQ grate they managed to cook a mouth watering meal.

First course, sandwiches made with eggplant dip, prepared from scratch by them earlier, onion and cheese wrapped in foil and toasted on the fire... can't wait to try this when I get home. Then onto stock flavoured rice, baked potatoes and Israeli salad, accompanied with copious amounts of alcohol...thanks to the big speakers they hauled around with them we even had music.

At about 1am when the festivities seemed like they were dying down oceanboy Greggie demanded that we all go down to the beach to end the night, to my surprise all the Israeli’s agreed, and we promptly marched down. When we got down there Gregie with the help of the boys put on a spectacular fireworks display in honor of my birthday, I am not talking sparklers here, you can buy just about any type of fireworks here - seriously what you see on New Year's Eve at the habour, it was beautiful and amazing one of the most special gifts I have ever received, fireworks are much pretty when they are just for you.

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