Palolem: one little comment

did I mention that a Mojito is about 2.50$ here...eeeee! I'm sunburnt and about to party party party for Diwali, and the cheap exotic drinks are going to be dangerous.

Palolem: You look my shop???

Hello once again.

I thought we had escaped the mass of Indian children chasing us down the beach to "come look my shoopppp" but no. Palolem is full of tourists right now, and so still a few people trying to get us to buy things, but not so bad. Palolem is probably the most beautiful beach I have ever seen, but I think I prefer Anjuna anyway, for it's laid back atmosphere. Watching the sunset in Anjuna at Cafe Liliput was absolute splendor! Flickering fireflies, my favorite song of all time (Perfect Day by Lou Reed) and people waiting on our every desire...it doesn't get better than that.

At Palolem there are a lotttt more people, but this is also fun because Ryan and I have something to look at other than each other (which isn't so bad...ahem!) I also have people to play soccer with on the beach. I found a group of not so bad looking boys from the UK to play with tomorrow, shwweeeet!

So Ryan and I will be being lazy on this beach for 3 days and then we're off to Cochin, Kerala for who knows how long. Heck, we nearly got stuck in Goa (by far the best place on earth to be stuck) because we couldn't get money out anywhere. We've already got a base tan, so three more days should be enough to not light up dark rooms with our glowing white skin...well mine anyway.

I'm off to go listen to live fusion music on the beach now, a la prochaine!
Leanne

Life's a Beach

Yeah, life is a beach...

I could do this for a lifetime, sitting on the beach all day, eating shark and watching sunsets.

Yesterday, our last day with our friend Emma, we went to the Wednesday market in Anjuna, which is more of a circus than anything else. I bought some prezzies for a few friends, you guys better be excited cause I am lugging a whole lotta crap around :)

Haggling is an art form and I got quite good at it. I realized that everyone has their own style, and I was proud to develop my own. Trick is, give them a price that they laugh at because it's so low, (for example, they say Rs 1000 and I say Rs. 150) and then I only budge by about Rs. 50 upwards and they keep going down. The more you walk away, the more they give you what you want. By the way, Rs 50 is about 1.10$CAD heh heh. The other trick is to go at the end of the day, when they'll sell you almost anything for nothing.

The rest of the evening we sat on the beach watching sunset and then drank with these guys from Brixton, Chris and Sam, until the wee hours of the morning...By far my favorite experience of this trip was lying down just where the tide rolls in (the water is really aggressive this time of year) and letting the powerful waves roll me in and out of the water. We were in pitch black water under a skyfullofstars.

Tomorrow we move on to Palolem, though it pains me to leave Anjuna. The beaches in Palolem, however, are supposed to be the nicest around! Eeeee!

Check ya later!

Week 2: Goin to Goa

Hello!
I'll make this entry kind of brief, for me anyway.
Ryan and I spent more time than desired in Mumbai but we left Sunday night on an overnight train to Goa after a long day of running errands. One of the last things we did in Mumbai was visit the Taj hotel to see if I could get a wax-job done there to be beachworthy. It cost me about 25-30$ CAD for a full leg and bikini wax at the most expensive hotel in the city, eeeeeee! My first time waxing went well too, I nearly fell asleep.

Alright boys, wake up, I'm done talking about body hair removal. We got on our sleeper train, which was not so bad at all. We ended up with this nice girl from Alaska/Oregon named Emma as our bunk-mate. We chatted all night and when we arrived at our destination, invited her to hang out with us in Anjuna since she would be staying for a few days not too far from us. We spent yesterday night at a bar overlooking the beach, and today we went to Old Goa to look at churches/ruins, and the very slowly decomposing corpse of St. Francis Xavier. Yum, who feels like lunch! We took a million pictures and then came back home. Tonight we'll eat, watch the sunset over the Indian Ocean, and then get to bed early to be wide awake for the famous wednesday anjuna market for gift shopping!!!

Tomorrow we may go see dolphins and crocodiles, or we may just lay down and get a tan, who knows! Other noteworthy points: today was the first day I felt nauseous, but its not that bad. Ryan left his camera in Mumbai and they wont send it to us here so we wont have any pics on the blog for a long time. Good news is that we'll get his camera back before heading to London/Paris.

Alright kiddies, keep eating your carrots and wait patiently for my next entry, it may be a while if Ryan and I decide to forget the rest of India and stay in Goa for 2 months...heh heh. Can you believe it's week 2 already??

Love Leanne