Goa part 2, the rise of the scooter

family scooter in India!


Time for part two I think, hope I can make it, there is so much I want to tell you all! Lets see, I left you all sitting on Baga beach I think. Well on Wednesday Gavin, Richard and Moonj (not his real name, but everyone calls him that) came to stay, as we had a spare bed and the lads were willing to rotate sleeping on the floor. They were all for renting out scooters and encouraged by them me and Gayle split for a scooter of out own, unfortunately leaving Pete and Katie with the taxis, but we really wanted to drive one around and they didn’t want to drive. They didn’t mind so it was cool. And oh what fun we had, scooters are so easy to ride. Even with two of us it wasn’t as bad as I feared negotiating the Indian traffic, dumb pedestrians and various fauna that happened in our way (cows, dogs & elephants mainly). I actually found the foreign (I mean not Indian) drivers worse than the locals, the foreign guys just zip past you and cut you and speed way more than the locals, or even the visiting Indians (you can tell them by their cool shades and stylish clothes). The funniest thing is that I don’t even have a license, not even an Irish one! So bad! The renter just gave us the bikes with a show of id and we were cool! Anyway, I’d say I know more about the rules of the road than a good number of Indian drivers the way some of them drive here. (They are either fools in old crap cars and lorries who just don’t know the rules and annoying wankers in big cars (SUV style) who think they rule the road). So first thing we did was drive to Vagator (after a little test drive up and down the local road). Vagator is my favourite beaches of all that I’ve visited in the North. It’s isolated compared to most beaches and has some of the nicest, cheapest, chilled out shacks in Goa. Plus it’s defienlty the most beautiful beach. It’s quite small with rocks all over (makes It a little dangerous for swimming) and cliffs with palm trees all around. Sunset there is out of this world too, but then sunset anywhere in Goa is the best, just look at the pics.
Sunset at Vagator from the cliffs

I had a bit of a ‘moment’ on Vagator beach listening to Gui Boratto’s “Beautiful Life” track while lying on a sunbed with Gayle watching the sun sink bellow the horizon. Cheesey I know but it was what it was. We went to this shack called Palm Beach I think it was, great food and amazing prices. 120rs was the most expensive thing on the menu. Beer cost 25ruppees a bottle. Okay, I have to cut this one short, looks like I'll have to divide the trip into 3. No harm though, means more time to talk about things in later blogs.


And for those that don't believe (not mentioning anyone) that India doesn't have surf...check out the monsoon weather at vagator