The last day of the year! Usually I would sit in Church or chapel (or at the very least, in a quite room) and meditate on the year gone by to give thanks & praise to God for all the blessings received.
On this day however, was not allowed to wander off by myself & was forcibly dragged to Arpora first & then to Anjuna as one of the gang wanted to “check out” the venues before the night’s dance.
So off the lot of us went to Arpora to see Club Cubana. As I had said though, it was closed (d-uh) and there was nothing to see except the sign at the foot of the hill.
From there to Anjuna beach to ‘Curlies’. Anjuna beach turned out to be very beautiful thoughI don’t think it’s good to swim in (seemed pretty rocky). We walked on the beach for a good long strech until we reached the place.
It turned out to be a very hippie druggie (imo) place with rave music playing (in the morning!!!) and various degrees of drugged men of every color.
Ana & Geh, like two excited school girls were highly thrilled at finally getting to “see people doing drugs” (!!!) and Ana even posed for pics in front of some of them so that we could get druggie-goings-on in the back!!! Yes, I know we’re all crazy.
We had a quick drink since we had come all the way & then made our way back to Panjim. Passed a now empty flea market, the stalls stripped to bare essentials poles & it was very surreal looking at it, remembering the ridiculous crowds of only a few days previous.
We had been forewarned of Goa’s unmoving traffic on New Year’s night (it’s really pretty much the same in Mumbai also), so we decided to get out the house really early to make it to Arpora on time. Hence an early lunch was in order.
Couldn’t think of any place in a hurry & as we had such a fabulous dinner at Viva Panjim the previous night we decided to head back there. BIG mistake. Unlike the previous night, we had to wait THREE hours for a table & then for the food (even though we ordered in advance). Eating took precisely 15 minutes, we were so hungry. We were also highly peeved with the restaurant for keeping us waiting so long (each time we were about to leave, they’d tell us the table was just getting ready, finally seating few of us, and then another hour to the food after we’d been seated). It was an ordeal we may have endured if we were as “susegad” as some of the Goans, but since we especially wanted to go home, sleep & get ready for the night early, we were really totally *@^$*@&.
Jess took this pic of me sleeping on someone’s bike during the long wait. Some of the rest wandered the streets in Panjim. Very very pretty.
Finally made it back home & got some sleep. All turned out well. We managed to all be dressed and ready to move by around 8pm.
Made it to Arpora by 10pm. Towards the time we reached traffic was killing, but I suspect we got off easy anyway.
The view from the top allowed us the greatest display of fireworks from over 25 places! I won’t go into details about how we spent the rest of the night at Club Cubana 
except to say this - it was FABULOUS!!!
A great way to start the New Year. May it be a good one for all of us!
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