New Year on the Beach
Well hello blog buddies. Feels like ages since we last talked. Time is slow here in Goa.
Anyway, avoiding the roasting sun today, I thought Id take some time to update you on my escapades the last few days.
After the Snot fiesta (see last post) I went back for more the next morning - this time achieving the heady heights of dual nostril stringing. Jurassic park! I even have some photos - so they will be on the photo website in due course...though its not pretty!. So I have graduated to head swot of the whole group, as I was the only one to achieve the dual nostril string maneuver (Sp?) Still cant do a headstand though.....
So, on to New Years Eve. Me being me, I talked the hotel owner into letting me hold a massive cocktail party and BBQ for everyone in the hotel and all my various friends along the beach. We charged one price for all you can eat food, and then all you can drink special Absta cocktails. I spent the whole of New Years eve getting ready - making decorations and cocktail favours out of tinsel and coloured paper we found in the local market (they dont have little umberella's or anything as fancy as that here!) I had asked the guy to get some coconuts within which we were planning on making cocktails instead of glasses. So we were all set!
Nela and I were in charge of the bar all night (in return for free food and drink...Lovely!) so we had a great laugh being our double act. At midnight, everyone was suitably cross-eyed, and we all poured out onto the beach to watch the fireworks. Fireworks go off every night here, so NYE was double strength. Hundreds of explosions were happing over the sea and in the sky - and being India, lots of them were being let off on the ground too!! Very romantic (if you can avoid being blown up!) The whole beach was full of locals and tourists, and everyone was being happy and taking photos of each other! really great.
The party continued with beach fires and lots more fireworks until the early hours (in fact I went to bed after dawn!!) Luckily, MJ had the sense to cancel Yoga on NYD!!
On NYD I thought about Gran (it would have been her 92nd birthday), and chilled out all day, drinking fresh pineapple juice and eating lots and lots of food. wonderful.
Little known to me....a few hours behind back in Blighty....Gareth was asking Pol to marry him! How exciting!!!!! Anyway, as soon as I got the news, I was very happy to say I would be bridesmaid.....BUT this may change the future of this trip...they are possibly getting married in July - so this means I may have to change my itinerary to be back in time. Watch this space! In the mean time..... CONGRATULATIONS P and G! Big Chiddy salutes you!
Since New Year, I have been doing very little. My Norweigan chums left a day or so ago bound for Kerala - so its been a little bit quiet. Been working on my NY resolution of doing Yoga and nothing much else.
Did make the effort yesterday to explore another beach - a really really peaceful long stretch of sand along the coast called Agonda . Nela and I were considering moving huts there, but it turned out to be just TOO quiet. Only one restaurant and a couple of hut places. We agreed we wanted to stay at Patnem for the forseeable. Anyway, Nela and I, and also our cool chums Tania and Claire from Bristol, had a great afternoon body surfing and eating seafood! Claire, Tania and I had a crazy rickshaw ride back to Patnem - I laughed hysterically all the way back as it was a high speed terror ride! Survived though.
Anyway, avoiding the roasting sun today, I thought Id take some time to update you on my escapades the last few days.
After the Snot fiesta (see last post) I went back for more the next morning - this time achieving the heady heights of dual nostril stringing. Jurassic park! I even have some photos - so they will be on the photo website in due course...though its not pretty!. So I have graduated to head swot of the whole group, as I was the only one to achieve the dual nostril string maneuver (Sp?) Still cant do a headstand though.....
So, on to New Years Eve. Me being me, I talked the hotel owner into letting me hold a massive cocktail party and BBQ for everyone in the hotel and all my various friends along the beach. We charged one price for all you can eat food, and then all you can drink special Absta cocktails. I spent the whole of New Years eve getting ready - making decorations and cocktail favours out of tinsel and coloured paper we found in the local market (they dont have little umberella's or anything as fancy as that here!) I had asked the guy to get some coconuts within which we were planning on making cocktails instead of glasses. So we were all set!
Nela and I were in charge of the bar all night (in return for free food and drink...Lovely!) so we had a great laugh being our double act. At midnight, everyone was suitably cross-eyed, and we all poured out onto the beach to watch the fireworks. Fireworks go off every night here, so NYE was double strength. Hundreds of explosions were happing over the sea and in the sky - and being India, lots of them were being let off on the ground too!! Very romantic (if you can avoid being blown up!) The whole beach was full of locals and tourists, and everyone was being happy and taking photos of each other! really great.
The party continued with beach fires and lots more fireworks until the early hours (in fact I went to bed after dawn!!) Luckily, MJ had the sense to cancel Yoga on NYD!!
On NYD I thought about Gran (it would have been her 92nd birthday), and chilled out all day, drinking fresh pineapple juice and eating lots and lots of food. wonderful.
Little known to me....a few hours behind back in Blighty....Gareth was asking Pol to marry him! How exciting!!!!! Anyway, as soon as I got the news, I was very happy to say I would be bridesmaid.....BUT this may change the future of this trip...they are possibly getting married in July - so this means I may have to change my itinerary to be back in time. Watch this space! In the mean time..... CONGRATULATIONS P and G! Big Chiddy salutes you!
Since New Year, I have been doing very little. My Norweigan chums left a day or so ago bound for Kerala - so its been a little bit quiet. Been working on my NY resolution of doing Yoga and nothing much else.
Did make the effort yesterday to explore another beach - a really really peaceful long stretch of sand along the coast called Agonda . Nela and I were considering moving huts there, but it turned out to be just TOO quiet. Only one restaurant and a couple of hut places. We agreed we wanted to stay at Patnem for the forseeable. Anyway, Nela and I, and also our cool chums Tania and Claire from Bristol, had a great afternoon body surfing and eating seafood! Claire, Tania and I had a crazy rickshaw ride back to Patnem - I laughed hysterically all the way back as it was a high speed terror ride! Survived though.
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