goa april 2010- ipl, bondu,goma ityaadi ityaadi

it all started around a table at greens, back in feb 2010. we decided to close the year as fast as we could and head for a rendezvous in goa. the gang of nine, this time voted to leave their better halves back home. vaidyanu got the ticketing done almost immediately which was good. that sealed it. nakita was to be our home once again. alpesh,santosh and dinya could not make it.. agli baar...

8th of april, fantastic start to our trip vaibhav's mail set the mood. dude you must write, you have a knack for humour which is the toughest art to master. we assembled at around 9 pm at rishi restaurant outside dadar tt. in the words of vv, 'pratha pramane aap aaplya gaadyanchya ani svatachya takya bharunach govya la jaycha aasta'.. dinya came over to see us off.

took the kokan kanya, spent most of the night in the corridor exchanging notes over nothing in particular. slept off to the sounds of the soft and sometimes loud snores of co-passengers;am sure they had the same complaint of us. next day saw us reach thivim at around 10. hired a car to take us to the hotel and well, stopped at the first watering hole we could see, about 45 seconds from the railway station.

we have a photo of doc with a beer can as well, which can be reproduced at the appropriate moment. all set, thirst slaked we reached good old nakita-minus chaand- in god only knows how many minutes. u see, by now time did not seem to matter. our sense of serenity inturrepted sometimes by our cell phones and kaala jamuns; the only link with the lives we lead back in mumbai.

the pool appeared like a long lost friend and we thought it only appropriate to renew old ties, in we went, feeling like kings.. since vaibhav had missed out on the gastronomic pleasures offered by o'coquerio we went over for lunch, said hello to charles and well...

a good siesta left us recharged for more kingly experiences, kamikaze and mango panna disguised as chasers; as we sat around plotting the reception for rao saheb the next morning.

and what a raosing reception it turned out be...









featured here with 'chutki' maala, needless to say the welcome drinks were chilled. off we went to madgaon for a paatal bhaji breakfast, picked up some fish for lunch from the local market and headed home. thats shiroda, for the uninitiated. brief nap over we hit the fishing grounds called 'moos'.. score was sarang two, vaidya/naik one each. the doc flirted with some crabs on the river edge, tough luck kj- surely you will be third time lucky. ashish got the fundamental of fishing right away- patience and loads of it.

after a meal at my place we headed back to nakita, pool and kings. simple life, simply done.night out at baga wandering about... baaki ka kaufnaak kissa kissi aur din. doc you are one lucky dude to have missed this one.

sunday, breakfast at infantaria, lunch at martin's corner and off to the airport.. back home.. will write about martins separately.

all in all a great trip; ipl will definitely not be the same again....when the music plays....