Doug and I took a long weekend in Goa - y'know, to celebrate President's Day. Can't recall ever celebrating President's Day before... definitely should do it more often. Anyways, we decided to head south as all three previous times I've gone to the north. People and guide books talked about Palolem being beautiful but my friend Alison had been the week before and described it as chaotic, which is not at all my dream beach vacation. So instead we went to a smaller one within walking distance - Patnam - which isn't even mentioned in the guidebook from a few
years ago. It's startling how fast things change. It's probably today exactly how Palolem was 3 years ago. Just perfect. There's restaurants/huts lining the beach, which is this wonderful size and sand consistency (sand's way too hot with bare feet but really, that's just not enough to complain about). Enough people for good people watching but not enough to get annoying.
The first nights we stayed at this Rs. 250 ($6) hut which was quite nice (good shower, real toilet) but uncomfortable bed so we upgraded to a Rs. 700 ($15) place which was really gr
eat. (pictured). Both were mostly made of plywood. The second one was on the actual beach, instead of 6 steps back. It had a little porch thing overlooking the beach. Aahh. And then we pretty much did nothing. Went to Palolem one night for dinner, were happy we hadn't stayed there. Watched the hippies and backpackers and topless sunbathers do their things. Nothing is nice:)
Doug and I took a long weekend in Goa - y'know, to celebrate President's Day. Can't recall ever celebrating President's Day before... definitely should do it more often. Anyways, we decided to head south as all three previous times I've gone to the north. People and guide books talked about Palolem being beautiful but my friend Alison had been the week before and described it as chaotic, which is not at all my dream beach vacation. So instead we went to a smaller one within walking distance - Patnam - which isn't even mentioned in the guidebook from a few
years ago. It's startling how fast things change. It's probably today exactly how Palolem was 3 years ago. Just perfect. There's restaurants/huts lining the beach, which is this wonderful size and sand consistency (sand's way too hot with bare feet but really, that's just not enough to complain about). Enough people for good people watching but not enough to get annoying.
The first nights we stayed at this Rs. 250 ($6) hut which was quite nice (good shower, real toilet) but uncomfortable bed so we upgraded to a Rs. 700 ($15) place which was really gr
eat. (pictured). Both were mostly made of plywood. The second one was on the actual beach, instead of 6 steps back. It had a little porch thing overlooking the beach. Aahh. And then we pretty much did nothing. Went to Palolem one night for dinner, were happy we hadn't stayed there. Watched the hippies and backpackers and topless sunbathers do their things. Nothing is nice:)
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