Finger on the Pulsar

Market day came at Anjuna on Wednesday. This was the last straw. The peaceful stonner beach was descended upon by 18 gezillion more hippies that had come from every rock and cave, near and far to buy locally produced nick-knacks. One benefit was the priceless people watching and local entertainment. This included more than the usual amount of child labour entertainers. Some with swords through their cheeks, some riding painted cows and some very cleaver girl rope walking inside a bicycle wheel rim. After five days hanging out with super stonner aging hippies I decided to move on. I only stayed for so long to try and buy a bike. I failed miserably. Handing over 400 pounds to a grinning man and not owning the bike just did not really give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. I took 4 local buses and headed south to a beach called Colva. In the guide it is described as a small fishing village. I'm not sure which Hindese dictionary the people writing the guide were using but it is none of these things. This place is perfect if you like seeing Indian tourists in their droves (is that a collective noun for Indian men?) swimming in the sea in their Y-fronts.
I arrived yesterday morning and hired a geared bike. A pretty cool pulsar. I have spent the last 2 days driving mainly south from my base and must have visited over 20 beaches. Each beach has a different theme and feel. Baga is the cost-del-hell of Goa. Anjuna is the Ibiza stonner place. Most of the other places usually have a much simpler theme based on the majority population....Israeli beach..Russian beach...English pie and chips beach and Indian tourists beach. It's all good and touring around them all is highly entertaining.
Goa is the richest state in Indian and there are LOTS of churches and mini christian temples. Christianity is a major religion here. We have to remember that even during British rule this place was Portuguese and there are plenty of dilapidated and some restored Portuguese style villas.

Well to end todays entry on a high note. I have GREAT news. In 2 days time Talbot Senior and my mum will be visiting me in Goa. I have sorted a very nice place on the beach for a couple of nights while they recover from jet lag and "India-shock". My mum and dad are very well traveled so they may very well find it a doddle. It's gonna be GREAT to see them, it's been six months and I have a small plan up my sleeve. More adventures are to be had before they have to jet back off home.