“Goan Xmas and down to Kerala” Aliandcam’s photos around Varkala, India (accomodation in patnem)
Preview of Aliandcam’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Varkala, India Entry Title: “Goan Xmas and down to Kerala…” Entry: “Hey everyone! Hope you all had a very merry Xmas and festive new year – here we are in 2007! Our Xmas was really nice – staying at the Intercontinental was a lovely treat after the past two months of fairly basic accomodation, and we made full use of the pool, private beach and flat-screen telly, but snubbed the ridiculously-priced Xmas Eve “gala dinner” at US 0 per head to eat freshly caught snapper and calamari by candle-light on the beach at a little shack about 5 minutes walk in the next bay at Patnem beach…for the princely sum of about 4 quid per head, including pina coladas and beer! Sooo much better…and it was so nice that we decided to come back for lobster for our Xmas dinner the next evening. After two luxurious nights we resumed our life as backpackers and stayed a final night in a bamboo hut on Patnem beach before dragging ourselves to the train station to head south…we’d booked a flight from Trivandrum (right at the southern tip of India) back to Mumbai for 6 Jan fairly early in our travels, which was why we had to hit the road again…if we hadn’t I think we would have quite happily just stopped and stayed in Goa for the final couple of weeks as it was such a little slice of gorgeous paradise! But …
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