My Yearend Getaway

I have imagined many a-times how great this trip to Goa was going to be. It would be me P, S and K getting away from all the madness, go laze around beaches and charge up for the New Year (not that I needed any charging up for my job, but you get the drift right :)). As usual, I plan so everything that can go bad goes bad. S dropped out of our trip, she had much better things to do during her holidays :P. So, it was just me, P and K.

And then, P had to cut our holiday short because AC was leaving for the US, now how can we come before a budding romance. So, we sacrificed one more day. And that’s when it all went downhill. The cab guy switched off his mobile and we were stuck at 11 in the night with all our bags packed and nowhere to go. But we were not quitters, so we promptly booked flight tickets and were on our way for our next big vacation, blowing half of the budget right there.

The last time I was in Goa, it was horrible. It was in UG and I definitely wanted to have a do over, make some new memories. But fate has something else planned; it was lesson for all us girls in India, if you want to go to Goa for New Year’s be ready for lots of getting shoved, being hit on by every two minutes and groping. Boy was that fun. NOT. It was New Year’s Eve and all we did was stand in a corner trying not to get trampled to death by the mob. In the end we did enjoy a bit, dancing near the bouncers’ stand, it was okay. We got back to our hotel at 1.30 in the night and the owner thought that we would be leaving for the party and not coming back already!

But the next day more than made up for all this craziness.  We got ourselves two bikes (yours truly cannot drive anything, so I was shuffled between the two, but it was great). We were singing aloud all the Beatles songs we could remember, making pit stops between beaches and sampling every third restaurant’s food. We made it to three beaches with all the stopping in between. I did my share of celebrity spotting, Himesh (!)Reshammiya and Nikhil Chinnappa. I saw the latter in some battered down cottage when we were running around for directions. P had a crush on him since she was 16 I think, so I ran out and told her to go talk to him, that idiot just went in but couldn’t even come up with one line to talk to the poor guy. She was all smiles for the next one hour though :)

We went to a Spanish, a Greek and a Goan restaurant. The food was great and the ambience even better. Even though, the trip started off with a hitch, it was just what we need, a little R&R. I going to plan my next trip pretty soon. 

We did make our share of new year’s resolutions there on the beach

• We are going to diet our way through the next year
• French and photography lessons
• Jogging every morning
• Join Enlightened Society
• Go on heritage walks around the city (I even bought a guide!)
• Plan another Eurotrip (I don’t know how this is going to happen, unless I take another personal loan)
• Bangkok, Cambodia and Laos!
• Watch more movies 

So there it is a great start with a new year, with a few hiccups but it’s alright. Hope this year works out for the better :)

Few clicks, a little too late, but in my defense the site refused to upload pics till yesterday!