Most of the tales you hear about being in India are negative ones. Particularly ones involving foreign women and Indian men. While it is important to be aware and take precautions, it is nice to hear another side. Here’s a…
Learning to Puke
I will be the first to admit that it took myself and Steph and few days to get into the “Ashram lifestyle” partly because we had no idea what we were signing up for. We had slept through the first…
Waking Up at 5am to Sing
I’m not a morning person, as anyone who knows me can attest to. I love music, but cannot sing. So the idea of waking up at the ungodly hour of 5:45am to make it in time for half an hour…
Krazy Kayaking
So what did we do during the day at Agonda? Well, most of the time we were good beach bums and spent the day tanning, reading and swimming, but a couple of days in we decided we were ready for…
Agonda Through the Bathroom Window
I’ve never seen the inside of so many people’s bathrooms. Seriously. If you know me, you know I need to use the bathroom a lot. Or toilet as I am supposed to say now, according to international travel language. But being…
Giving Up Our Seats to Indian Elites
Margaret Miller, a colleague of Stephanie’s from Vancouver had learned that her friend Janice Harper had been invited to the 5th Annual Goa’s International Literary and Arts Festival to present her most recent anthology “Emails from India”, a collection of…
Arambol
Our first stop in Goa was the town of Arambol. We were originally planning on going to Anjuna, but strangely, were recommended the town of Arambol instead, by someone who stays 6 months out of the year in Anjuna. OK…being…