Goa

Sitting in office... cannot concentrate at all on my work, can't believe that I've returned from a  fantastic Goa trip just 4 hours back and here I am back to the routine life in front of the 'dabba'.

As I am not able to do anything else, let me just write all about the trip.. So basically it all started with a phone call from Avishek. So one day he calls me up and says, "Yaar Surabhi, New Year pe Goa chalegi", and I asked him the typical question "Kaun kaun jaa raha hai.." and he was like "wo to dekh lenge". Then I asked around in office and slowly our group became bigger and bigger. Finally we were 11 people with 10 from my office and 1 Avishek himself. The plan got pre-poned to mid December instead of New Year

So we did the tickets and booking quite in advance, some 20 days or so. Train tickets were in waiting so we did bus tickets as well, which was a very good decision as the WL was not cleared so we finally went and came back both by bus.

DAY 0: We left Mumbai on 16th December around 8pm from Goregaon East. It was an awesome beginning with sudden hootings and cheers from everyone around. We started playing Mafia and after 2-3 rounds settled down to sleep. Not a very comfortable journey but considering that our destination was Goa, nobody complained much :D

DAY 1: We reached at 9:30AM on 17th Dec and headed straight to the hotel. We stayed at Hotel Lua Nova, just next to Baga Beach. The hotel was much better than expected but that didn't really matter as we were going to spend a lot of time outside. So we changed into our beach-wears and went directly to the beach. First we had breakfast at St. Anthonys and then started with the water sports. Basically, it was a package for 4 sports: Water scooter, banana ride, para sailing and bumpy ride. I enjoyed Para sailing and bumpy ride... rest were just fine. Then had a good time throwing water at each other. The water was extremely salty and produced a really irritating feeling in the throat. Then came back, had a bath, and went out for Arambole beach.

I am editing this draft after more than 2 years and am in no mood to continue it so will just publish as is.