Go Goa
Gone..!!!
It wasn’t exactly a planned trip but when opportunity presented I grabbed it. It was road trip planned by my brothers in bangalore. Six guys,3 bikes & a innova christa began at 0400 in morning to cruise 600kms roughly. A day before all bikes were checked, serviced, bluetooth intercom device installed in helmets, extra luggage placed in innova.
I didn’t know what to expect but just went with the flow. Never I did any road trip nor visited Western India. Bikers were visual treat. All bikes (Domineer’s) in green, padded jackets, knee caps, shining helmets & fluorescent gloves. Once the bikes hit the highway, the speeds were on average 150 kmph.
Such speeds are just scary and unimaginable
for me. All while they were cruising , innova was itself on full throttle. The person
who was driving the innova took the drive to next level . it was almost like
vehicle has become extension of his body and zipping at crazy speeds. Btw there
was no Dil chahte hai song being played..
Well, what do you expect in Goa? Beaches, bikini & lots of beer in pubs. First thing was the planners hired entire luxurious villa with private pool for ourselves for next 3-4 days. It was opulence at its best.
For once even I unstrung my purse & didn’t mind the expenses which touched 5 figures. Villa was very beautiful. Reading a book next to it , sipping hot tea with crisp toast was so heavenly. Unlike regular travellers , we didn’t go on tourist spree to visit all tourist spots or churches or beaches.
We totally relaxed, ate our full, while few
explored, few just dozed off their hearts content away from hustle bustle of
concrete cities. The roads in goa were narrow , best suited for two wheeler
than cars. No wonder local bike rental is such a big business. All the
Portuguese era churches seem to have similar architecture which is of plain
unlike gothic structures of British.
One thing about my fellow travellers were that they were totally into bikes/cars, and enjoyed good food. At one point there was malfunction of one bike which they were able to jugad locally till goa where they replaced parts. At one point , one bike headlight failed which was compensated by one bike going ahead showing the way with another behind lighting from behind.
While I seldom a foodie of
huge quantities , the pictures displayed below shows the huge appetite our guys
had. Most of days were spent in dozing
till 10 am as it was very sunny outside, have lunch at 3 pm and dinner at 3 am.
Yeah dinner at 3 am which is totally against my routine. Many wondered how come
I went to goa considering iam never into these things. But once a while I
myself try to destroy the status quo I build for myself to explore life beyond
my comfort zone.
Goa is certainly about dipping neck lines, shortened skirts, flow of alcohol (though I didnt drink), beaches, firangis (foreigners) and bikinis. Arombol beaches had all these in full scale. But all that really caught my attention was beautiful sunset. Radient and spread of orange glow across the water stream. From there we visited most happening pub for all night disco. Last time I entered into disco was in teens /college time.
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| My room |
I thanked God for all the beautiful things She’s allowed me to experience throughout my life.....woke up when I wanted to (not by alarm , but as usual early)..read some beautiful lines in book...had lone pool time splashing around like mermaid (aquaman 😌)..great breakfast (after few laps in pool, ur stomach starts growling anyways)...kept away from crazy information loads from world ...taking break
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| What's this obsession with Russian women |
Now again feeling the wild, psychedelic trance music throbbing through your innards is quite phenomenal feel. Well, whats dampening was single water bottle was around 300/- inside. Now we can imagine the rest of costs.
But for once, everything goes. All desi women I
noticed were wearing red bangles which I conclude have come for honey moon post
wedding. Whats ridiculous was you dress in short skirts & western wear but
still holding to ethnic redbangles much to chagrin of every man around ogling.
As we were
here, the war between Ukraine and Russia broke out. Im sure no goa would
protest Russian invasion as there are so many Russians who made goa their
seasonal home. (now if they were Russians or ukraines or just some white
skinned people is subject to debate). There is so much obsession of Russians in
goa with every restuarent/pub advertising Russians women in their service.
Guess , russians have occupied Goa even before Ukraine.
Floating Casinos
Final day night we visited Casino on huge cruise ship. This is totally new experience to me as I never gambled ever in life and my personal philosophy is dead against any luck based gamble.
Its such huge vessel with every floor having so many games going on simultaneously serving unlimited food & drinks. We cant miss thick cloud of greed in air. Everyone trying their luck. While some winning and while many losing totally.
But once u taste little luck, its very difficult to not to get hang of gambling. While I didn’t understand most of gaming stalls, I tried Russian roulette with token coins given at entry. I have won twice the amount but refrained to try more . I just didn’t want to get addicted and end up spending more. self control just isn’t my control.
Mighty magician & Me
The best grand finale was meeting a magician
in musical theatre. He was just so
rocking, dazzled us with his performance of
bending spoons & straightening it, thus flabbergasting all of us.
By time I returned home, I realised , four
days were totally missing from worldly calender. I was totally soaked into goan
life that I lost total touch with outer world. Well, though expensive, but
worth the dime. Now time to get back to reality.
