20.05.2014
We had to spend the night in Mangalore and happily found a train for the morning to Canacona, next to Palolem Beach. As we arrived in the little town around Palolem Beach, we have been the happiest people alive. Cheap Western Food, 3 Beer for 100 and WIFI in a chilled place to sit. The 'buy 3 cocktails get one free' was just the topping.
To find a place to stay was suddenly not that important anymore. And sometimes you just have a run. So that day we had one: The owner of the restaurant had a hostel too. Easy, nice, cheap! We just put our backpackers in the room and went to the beautiful beach. After a shower and some shopping a delicious dinner and the good drinking offers waited for us. Very happy again I felt a sleep that night. The nest two days, 16th and 17th, we spend with shopping, chill'n on the beach, eating good and cheap food and drinking cheap alcohol. At out last night we met 3 guys from Bangalore.
They told us some secrets about Goa and have been very guest friendly. In the morning of the 18th I went for a run at the beach, like the last two mornings and we went for breakfast. After we took a bus to Mangalore in order to go to Panaji.
Anni and Luki had a booked hotel there for the next 3 days. So I went alone to the old center of the town. It was the first city in India that I saw and can say it is nice. But this is cause it was build from the Portuguese some centuries ago. It was the weird to be in India with buildings like in a old Portuguese town, people speak Portuguese, English and Hindi and looking like a Portuguese-Indian mix.
I walked around and met Luki and Anni later in a very nice and Irish Pub to drink some beer, fresh from our own beer tap. It was a good and fun last night together. The next morning I left to Mapusa to take a bus to Anjuna. Already in Palolem you could feel that the season is over cause the monsoon is coming soon. But in Anjuna you felt it even more. Everybody tried to sell you something and a lot of places had been shut down. As I was tired to walk with my meanwhile heavy backpack through the heat, I just met Itai, who is from Israel and lives every season in Goa. He offered the free room in his house and soon I find myself talking with different Hippies in a chilled restaurant.
Later we went to a season-closing-party of a Greek high class restaurant. Free buffet (the best of the best), free drinks, including Cocktails and everything you want. It was fun to see the upper class that relaxed. Very sad that I had to leave today after some shopping, walking at the beach and nice food at the chilled place. But I had to go back to Mapusa to get a bus to Mumbai tonight. This will be my last station in India. So far.
We had to spend the night in Mangalore and happily found a train for the morning to Canacona, next to Palolem Beach. As we arrived in the little town around Palolem Beach, we have been the happiest people alive. Cheap Western Food, 3 Beer for 100 and WIFI in a chilled place to sit. The 'buy 3 cocktails get one free' was just the topping.
To find a place to stay was suddenly not that important anymore. And sometimes you just have a run. So that day we had one: The owner of the restaurant had a hostel too. Easy, nice, cheap! We just put our backpackers in the room and went to the beautiful beach. After a shower and some shopping a delicious dinner and the good drinking offers waited for us. Very happy again I felt a sleep that night. The nest two days, 16th and 17th, we spend with shopping, chill'n on the beach, eating good and cheap food and drinking cheap alcohol. At out last night we met 3 guys from Bangalore.
Anni and Luki had a booked hotel there for the next 3 days. So I went alone to the old center of the town. It was the first city in India that I saw and can say it is nice. But this is cause it was build from the Portuguese some centuries ago. It was the weird to be in India with buildings like in a old Portuguese town, people speak Portuguese, English and Hindi and looking like a Portuguese-Indian mix.
I walked around and met Luki and Anni later in a very nice and Irish Pub to drink some beer, fresh from our own beer tap. It was a good and fun last night together. The next morning I left to Mapusa to take a bus to Anjuna. Already in Palolem you could feel that the season is over cause the monsoon is coming soon. But in Anjuna you felt it even more. Everybody tried to sell you something and a lot of places had been shut down. As I was tired to walk with my meanwhile heavy backpack through the heat, I just met Itai, who is from Israel and lives every season in Goa. He offered the free room in his house and soon I find myself talking with different Hippies in a chilled restaurant.
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