Perhaps a coincidence

It is perhaps a coincidence, but each time that I find myself on holiday in goa, I am at a point where I am so sick of my life the way it is right now or when I find my life so chaotic and unpredictable that I need to just throw my problems away for a while and unwind. This time was no different.

What was different was how goa has changed. Baga has gone the calangute way - teeming with package tourists Indian and foreign. For all the traffic there I might as well have been in Bandra on a sat night! One excursion from Anjuna to Britto's at Baga was all we could stand - even though the food almost made up for it.

Took a long ride to the beaches up north. Arambol had the best places to hang out and do nothing - which is what I love Goa for. Had tons of places where you could order some beer and munch on something while you smoke a cigarette, look out onto the sea, listen to the music and read in between.

T. said that Palolim was almost the same way and was a much better beach. Dunno about how it is like after the shacks were demolished a few weeks back.

Paradiso turned out to be a dampener. I was hoping for the best club I've been to in India and what I found was a total rave scene. Not part of that and didn't want any part of it. Eerie decor. The whole place gave me the creeps. Add the junkies who hang around and that makes it a place that you would avoid after exactly one visit. But one visit is warranted on a moonlit night for the view from the deck. The moonbeams reflect off the water and seem to head straight for you. Adds to the eerie atmosphere, but in a funnily nice kind of way.

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