No! Sleep! 'Til Goa!

First glimpse of India

No, literally, I had pretty much no sleep for the whole weekend.

So this is India

My adventure began on Thursday afternoon after work.  I joined a Meetup group last year and got an invitation to go to Goa for the weekend.  A guy named Raj was the trip organizer.  I decided to meet him at his place, so I could have somewhere to park my car since the flight would be leaving from Sharjah airport which is about an hour and a half drive from where I live and would either cost me 600dhms in cab fares or 300dhms in parking fees.

Dubai is constantly under construction...so basically my gps is totally inaccurate and I ended up driving around in circles for half an hour trying to find his place.  I finally gave up and just went to Sharjah airport.  Total drive time:  3hours.  Ugh.

Then, after we got to the airport, the computers were down, so they had to check us in manually which took about 2 1/2 hours.  We finally boarded our flight and arrived just in time for our tour to start.  There was literally no sleep for anyone that night.

Our first stop was the Portuguese Fort Aguada, which was built in 1613 to guard against the Dutch and Marathas, who were famed yeoman warriors and champions of Hinduism.  There was a fresh water spring located within the fort that supplied ships that would stop by, which is how Fort Aguada (agua = water) got its name.

Fort Aguada

Photo courtesy of Natalie Murray

Fort Aguada

photo courtesy of Cindy Dobratz

 After the fort we headed to Calangute Beach - ready for some lunch!  We ate at a place called "Brittos".  Awesome food!

The food was great: fried baby shark (my favorite), king crab, tiger prawns and different curries (not my favorite)

photo courtesy of Cindy Dobratz

Fosters, Australian for water.

That's me on the far right.  I think I was asleep.

Photo courtesy of Natalie Murray

Lady selling her wares.

Para-sailing

Para-sailing selfie!

Margarita sunset toast.

photo courtesy of Natalie Murray and her selfie stick

A bull running on the beach.  That's normal I guess!

photo courtesy of Natalie Murray

Pyramid!

Din din

By now, we had been up for 36 hours.  There was a rave on the beach, but I seriously needed some sleep!