We are now in the much more relaxing and liberal thinking Goa. Our first destination was Calangute in the North which is all neon lights and Red Lion bars and Daniel has cleverly named 'popadorm'. Get it?! Our drive there was one of the scariest yet with the driver thinking he was Nigel Mansell or something weaving in and out the traffic with the music on full blast (I don't know if Nigel liked loud dance music the comparison was more to do with the speed!)
The hotel we stayed at was fab! It had a swimming pool and everything and the staff and other guests were so friendly. We loved it so much we extended our stay by 5 days! We spent most of our time sunbathing by the pool or on the beach where there was an endless stream of people selling things but you got used to it.
We spent my birthday on the beach and then went for a lovely dinner and cocktails. The restaurant had some questionable entertainment on though as they played the karaoke version of songs like the birdie song! This was only bettered by the table of Danish people actually performing karaoke at a bar later on in our stay! We also found a wonderful book shop called Nicky's which we visited twice and had a lovely chat with the owner whilst buying and swapping old books with him.
After 10 wonderfully relaxing days we have moved South to Benaulim which is an area I visited once before 5 years ago. It is much quieter here in the village and on the beach which is also less dirty and with nicer sand! We went to a reggae night last night which turned out actually to be a house night. Oh well you can't win them all!
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