Goa – day 13
Tuesday, 11th April 2023
Today is a lazy day. We sleep in until 9 AM. We have coffee and tea. I upload some photos to Instagram, and then we head out for an early lunch. We pick a random restaurant in town.
We don’t quite understand what the waiter is offering, so it’s a surprise. It turns out to be an omelette with chicken curry, mushroom curry, and some kind of vegetable masala. Then we had some sweet flatbreads, finally something sweet, though some jam would have been nice with it. We continue to the viewpoint above Tajbag Beach. It’s a bit overgrown, so we end up by the sea on the rocks. It’s exactly noon, and it fells like in a sauna. It’s unbearable here. We stop by Talpona Beach, which is completely empty. We assume it’s because of the intense sun.
We just take some photos of the empty beach and decide to head back to our accommodation, planning to go out later. On the way, we buy a watermelon, a pineapple, and a coconut.
There’s chilled beer waiting for us in the fridge, so we watch an episode of Seinfeld while enjoying it. We also book our return flights and extend our stay by one more day. At 5 PM, we head to Agonda Beach for a swim. We swim for over an hour. There are waves, but I’m less scared now, and it’s actually fun. The sea is very warm, and there are far fewer people compared to Kerala.
For about 45 minutes, a Chinese couple is taking photos and filming with a horse on the beach – it’s really funny. After the sunset, we pack up, head back for a shower, and go out for dinner. This time we walk to a restaurant we found online. It’s completely empty and looks very clean and touristy. We order a Goan dish, Fish Thali.
For drinks, I have something like port wine, and Jozef has a Budweiser. You can tell we’re in a touristy restaurant – the food is much less spicy. On the way back from the restaurant, we take a walk along the beach. There’s a market with everything near our accommodation, so we buy some juice. We take our shoes off before entering. In mini-markets like these, you can usually keep your shoes on, but in town, we noticed that you have to go barefoot into furniture stores or jewelry shops. It seems to depend on the place.
