Goa

I HAD to go to Goa for work. Poor me. Actually I was running the last of my 4 skills building workshops (this topic was Documentation and Reporting - to which I recruited the ever lovely Deepti to co-train with me). And I figured since it's the last one, we might as well splurge a little - and I do mean little!

We stayed at this ghetto'esque (We were drowning in white thrash Russians) place in the middle of no where. The closest real town was Panjim and that was 30 minutes away.

This was my first time in Goa, and I was looking forward to it. It has a lot of hype after all. But like most things that people can't talk enough about. It wasn't all that. Is it me all do all colonial, christian, coastal, tropical towns look a like?

Anywho, at least I got to scratch it off my "places I must visit list" and I did get to get some fresh air and clear skies for a a couple of days (and did I mention the couple of massages and the facial at the spa?). So it wasn't a total loss :-)

Dinner with the Funders/DFID (with Deepti and I behind them)

The resort (the place itself wasn't that bad, but the service SUCKED!)

I did manage to get a bit of touring done - To Panjim at least and Old Goa

St. Francis Xavier Church





Church Of Bom Jesus

St. Francis himself!

OMG They Have Panapen in India!

(I think it's called breadfruit in English - but I thought it was a Caribbean thing!)

Pretty Church in Panjim
(if you hadn't guessed by now, Goa was a Catholic colony from the Portuguese)
Panjim Vista

Calingute Beach, North Goa - Highly Overrated
Dinner with the Humsafar Crew