Day 108 (Mon 23 Oct) - Hubli / Goa Colva Beach
Got into Hubli about 4 ish in the morning.
Bleary eyed we got a rickshaw to take us to the bus station some kms away.
Waited around for about half an hour before we spotted our bus that would take us to Margoa. Sarb felt confident that we would be sitting in our hotel by mid morning as he thought the journey would only take 4 hours. Wrong!!!
We sat on the bus and traveled on and on and on. Went up the Western Ghats and back down again. To be fair the journey was incredibly beautiful; traveling on winding roads through lush forests. At certain points during the journey we were afforded amazing views of valleys below us carpeted in green!
About 11ish we hit a patch of the road that can only be described as Kenyan i.e. bumpy and dusty. We had to travel on this road for a number of hours and were covered in dust and not a few bruises by the end of it.
We finally pulled into Margoa about 1ish. We got a rickshaw to our hotel on Colva Beach. Quite a neat hotel but vastly overpriced. Sarb was absolutely shattered so slept whilst Jo feeling hungry went off to get a bite to eat.
She soon returned with some excellent news. On her travels she had spotted a hotel advertising that its restaurant had English pies made by an English chef. Sarb was most pleased as he does like the occasional pie. We both had a sleep until about 5ish.
Today was a very special day as Jo's mum and Keith had flown out from the UK to meet us.
We got changed and headed off to the Majorda Beach hotel, some 5kms away, where Jo's mum and Keith were staying. They had just arrived in from London.
Really great to see them both! They looked pretty sprightly after their long flight. We had a few drinks and then had a buffet dinner in the beautifully lit gardens.
After dinner we returned to the comfort of the air conditioned bar where we polished off a few more bevvies; Jo was most pleased as she could actually drink the wine. In true colonial style Keith and Sarb rounded off the evening with a relaxing game of snooker.
We left the both of them and got a taxi back to our hotel.
Had a terrible nights sleep owing to a racket caused by a nearby nightclub.
Bleary eyed we got a rickshaw to take us to the bus station some kms away.
Waited around for about half an hour before we spotted our bus that would take us to Margoa. Sarb felt confident that we would be sitting in our hotel by mid morning as he thought the journey would only take 4 hours. Wrong!!!
We sat on the bus and traveled on and on and on. Went up the Western Ghats and back down again. To be fair the journey was incredibly beautiful; traveling on winding roads through lush forests. At certain points during the journey we were afforded amazing views of valleys below us carpeted in green!
About 11ish we hit a patch of the road that can only be described as Kenyan i.e. bumpy and dusty. We had to travel on this road for a number of hours and were covered in dust and not a few bruises by the end of it.
We finally pulled into Margoa about 1ish. We got a rickshaw to our hotel on Colva Beach. Quite a neat hotel but vastly overpriced. Sarb was absolutely shattered so slept whilst Jo feeling hungry went off to get a bite to eat.
She soon returned with some excellent news. On her travels she had spotted a hotel advertising that its restaurant had English pies made by an English chef. Sarb was most pleased as he does like the occasional pie. We both had a sleep until about 5ish.
Today was a very special day as Jo's mum and Keith had flown out from the UK to meet us.
We got changed and headed off to the Majorda Beach hotel, some 5kms away, where Jo's mum and Keith were staying. They had just arrived in from London.
Really great to see them both! They looked pretty sprightly after their long flight. We had a few drinks and then had a buffet dinner in the beautifully lit gardens.
After dinner we returned to the comfort of the air conditioned bar where we polished off a few more bevvies; Jo was most pleased as she could actually drink the wine. In true colonial style Keith and Sarb rounded off the evening with a relaxing game of snooker.
We left the both of them and got a taxi back to our hotel.
Had a terrible nights sleep owing to a racket caused by a nearby nightclub.
posted by Jo and Sarb at
10/23/2006 10:15:00 am
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