Dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like mine?

A break is a break is a break, no matter how long we chose to take off. Rashmee had an awesome idea to go for a long weekend to Goa at he end of march. We decided beginning of the month and the end of the month raced forward

29th March

My girlfriend is coming to town! my girlfriend is coming to town!!! So I decided to go early to Bandra and waited with bated breath. Through the chaos in the airport I see her smiling face – my holiday has begun!!!

First stop was Gazaali – had an amazing sea food meal – we are gearing up for Goa

30th March

Waking up at 4.30 for a flight – even to Goa- is way to early. Fortunately the Air Deccan flight was only 50 minutes late.

We got into a Ambassador cab- sat in one after ages – must say it a really comfortable car from the back seat. The Driver was racing against his urge to pee – which finally won 5 minutes before we reached Bagga!!

We reached Cavala Resort – it is located at the end of Baga beach:

Amazingly, though the season was over, they didnt have a single room free. We arrived at 9.00 and were told that the room would only be available by 1.00pm!!!

And since our room was not ready we hit the pool. Rashmee and I quickly decided the sides of the pool we liked – her in the shade and me in the sun!!

By the afternoon we heard that the chinmulgund's (and for the politically correct that would be Nisha Koppikar and Vikram Chinmulgund).had decided to join us in Goa. Some more lazying by the poolside was followed by a restful afternoon nap and then dinner at J&A. Nisha discovered Tetris as a mean to conter Ashok and Rashmee's extreme PDA<<Awesome Pate!!>>>

Dinner was followed by a walk on the beach outside Brittos – Goa is truly spectacular!! We even managed to get Vikram to smoke and hit the bottle...

After which we went for a coffee to Café Coffee Day – the service was dismal. Obviously they need to learn the difference between Fudge and Chocolate Sauce and oh yes they need to stop outsourcing staff training to Lila Café!! (more on that later). i however was not letting anything spoil my Goa experiance!!!

31st March

The moment of reasoning was here – had been repeatedly told that waking up IPG(aka Rashmee) was a Herculean task. But lo and behold- I woke up at 7.30 only to realize that Rashmee was very much awake!! Wow!! The breakfast at Cavala is highly recommended! The Chinmulgund’s (and for the politically correct that would be Nisha Koppikar and Vikram Chinmulgund).joined us for breakfast and we decided to go to the Marjorim beach.

The bridge to cross over to Aprpora was hell – my bike stopped there each time we did the crossover – hence the start of the hand break joke!!

The Marjorim beach was very beautiful but the food was very average!!!

Having had enough by mid afternoon we headed back to Baga.

We stopped at Lila Café and had some interesting food. The service was, as always, Nazi style- they refused to grill our sandwich cause THEY felt it wouldn’t taste good!!!<>

Dinner was at Suza Lobo. Food was average. After that we went to the Tito’s Bakery – the desserts were awesome – a Banoffe Pie,Merengue and a chocolate éclair

Rashmee and Nisha had still not had enough!! They wanted to party a bit more!! So we got back to Cavala and sat at the bar there. Had this gentleman come up and belt an amazing Louis Armstrong – I was thinking English, maybe German – when we lets out a guttural ‘Panchooo’ – a surd from sialkot no doubt!! After which Remo who was also at the bar came on stage and gave an amazing performance.

1st April

No it was not an all fools joke!! Rashmee was awake yet again at the crack of dawn! All of us had breakfast and we hit the Bagga beach rather early. We went straight to the Zanzibar shack.



















































































After a few beers the girls decided to indulge in artistic expression. The result was a renderation of Ayesha Takia in the sand!!!

Not to be left behind, I displayed my talent at balancing a bottle on my belly!!

More beers and a fab meal at Zanzibar was followed by a long nap and then we were off to Feista for dinner.

The food at Feista was by far the best of the trip

2^nd April – all good things must come to an end

The last of the round table breakfast with the Chinmulgund’s (and for the politically correct that would be Nisha Koppikar and Vikram Chinmulgund).

Rashmee and I spent the morning by the poolside while the Chinmulgund’s (and for the politically correct that would be Nisha Koppikar and Vikram Chinmulgund) went for a long drive and a long walk on the beach.

A cab ride and a plane ride later we had reached Bombay airport (and for the politically correct that would be The Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport)