Goa
Road to Karwar
Sterlings
Beaches,Bars , Bunks ,Buidings ,Bistros ,Basilicas
in cabs a fleeting glimpse .
Goa needs time and a wheel to explore
it has a lot to be seen
Be it in food drinks folklore people language customs or in the sun sand endless beaches
Goa where drinks are cheap
food tasty
people friendly
history hoary
one should come in the monsoon with heavy rains but for beaches now is best
lie on the sands with an ice cold beer bite into a pakora or a fried prawn
tuck in a Goan fish curry and rice or pluck out a pomfret fry or a vinegar soaked chicken vindaloo .
Dance to the rhythm of Remo
be come a Mario caricature
cruise in its rivers
watch its sunsets .
Goa is best thing the Portugese left us with ,other than my own Fort cochin
They left so much too in cooking
the food the language
the dress the songs the soul .
Goa needs to be enjoyed only with history ,
one has to go back to the 17th century on when Portugese came to India till they were kicked out in 1961 by our Army as they refused to let go .
thats ok
its in past
though we cant forget the cruelties they left us a lot
They left us Goan Indians lovely easy going friendly people .
To me a Portugese afficando staying in Cochin which was once thier colony too having visited Malacca and Macau and finding the strains of thier oneness
my bucket list is Lisbon itself
I need to retrace back to from where Vasco da gama centuries back met my great great grandfather the samorin of Kozhikode .
( PC.Manavedan Raja of Maankaavu kovilakam was my grandfather )
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