We were in Goa for 3 nights and 4 days. The hotel was right on the beach. The weather was absolutely wonderful. You cannot truly soak in the life style and adjust to life the Goan way in 3 or 4 days. You need to stay for a bit longer (like a couple of months!) to really get into the way of the land. That's probably why a lot of people I saw in Goa were from elsewhere and were dreading their flights home. The last of the charter flights back from Goa to England, Russia and Sweden were ending at the end of April. The nice thing about the beaches of Goa (unlike so many other beaches in India) is that it is clean. There are plenty of scantily clad foreigners and a little army of locals who are trying to sell everything useless under the sun to these tourists at exhorbitant prices. And for the most part these tourists convert everything to their respective currency and say oh wow, what a bargain! Now I do agree that they are a bargain and that's probably what keeps these locals emp
I use this as a place to let loose on whatever bugs me, usually at an hour way past my bed time. I *attempt* to keep track of where I am in the world right now and even try to put up pictures. You be the judge.