So, for the last 5 days, we’ve been in north Goa in a place called Anjuan. It’s basically a beach town that is famous for its Wednesday flee market on the beach. Because it has been low season, so far, on our trip, we’ve seen very few Westerners, but the fist thing we noticed about Anjuan, is that it’s full of gringos (my own term for foreigners). Some are smelly hippies who got stuck here about 30 some odd years ago and some are just passing through for a day or two, like us! From day one, we took a real liking to Goa.
Firstly, the food: we found an awesome restaurant that is inexpensive and has no customers, no matter what time of the day. They serve this Goan tasty treat called Xacuti. It’s a chicken curry cooked in a paste made with roasted aromatic spices and coconut and a traditional Goan specialty of chicken in a very rich gravy; our top 2 best dishes since we’ve been on our trip. Plus, the meals were accompanied by a banana milk shake, a banana lassi, a bowl of rice and 3 roti.
There’s this awesome bar not too far from one of the five star hotels Goa is known for and where we a currently staying. The bar is geared towards gringos. We checked it out our first day here intending on just having the one drink, but we got sucked into the amazing location, the cheap alcohol, good seats, excellent service and the most friendliest pack of stray dogs. We would have loved to also say they had good music, their sound system was massively distorted. Well, we figured ‘you can’t have it all’. We stayed there till late, got snookered and then realised we didn’t have enough money to continue the party, so we ended up staggering back to our hotel. So much for that ‘one drink’. But, what a great first day in Goa!
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