What is common between Goa and Kashmir.. No prize for Guessing ..Answer is Very simple..India..:-) Goa Sojourn was always on cards after pondicherry trip. We all decided that we would visit Goa very soon. Goa ,as i thought of it,was place of natural beaches and unhindered youthful exuberance. The picture of Goa which i could draw before was of raj kapoor's "BOBBY".
I took train to reach there.As i was going alone, i kept Einstein with me. "Life and times of Albert Einstein" is a good book and i devoured it in almost 4 years.Despite of dealing with Scientific theories and scientific nuances, Ronald Clark has also produced a Humane picture of Einstein , who like others ,is humorous and at times vulnerable. I could have read more of it had two new entrants of Indian Army not bumped in to us. Boys were from Punjab, I have been fascinated to Punjab from very early days..As early as DDLG happened to us.. I was enamored by their rustic dialect and the stories they were telling about their village. In a sense True India still lives in villages where there is still strong bonding between each other. How i wish i was living in such a village. After talking to them about 3 hrs i fell asleep..
When i woke up, It was raining hard.. I had thought of leaving the train at madgaon, But common sense prevailed and i left the train at vasco. The moment i left the station i could smell fish everywhere. i wonder whether Fishes fly there too. Some How i managed to reach Calingaut beach. Ranjit, Arpit and jha jee were still to come to join me. We were supposed to meet in the morning around 7o' clock. But nature has his own way to decide things , land slide occurred somewhere in the Goa- banglore Highway. They reached in the evening and by that time i have seen calingaut and baga with my another friend Ankit , who received me . He was like a savior . I could not have done much than to take a hotel and waited for their arrival , had ankit was not there.Ankit Is a captain in Indian Army. He is a childhood friend. we both passed from the same boarding school. finally they reached Calingaut at 10 o clock . i received them and went to hotel. After chatting long hours, we all fell asleep as if there were 3-4 dead man there in the room.
The next day i was like guide to me..I called in ankit and took him also with us when we went to see a fort Aguada which was once a jail..it was so full of nature that i could have happily volunteered to be a prisoner.. Very picturesque indeed.. Like all other we also took some 50 snaps there :-) when it comes to pose Arpit is the best.. He is someone who has this in-born talent .. I too tried some . i am not sure whether i could catch arpit in this trait. The best thing about him is that he is uber cool with great sense of humor.. He can make you laugh out of nothing.. After this We went to calingaut beach and had tatoo on our hand. We were advised not to go far in to the sea as due to heavy rain , water current was very forceful.. after enjoying Sun and sand there at calingaut. We proceeded to Baga Beach..Baga Beach is naturally more picturesque because of being a side to the greeny mountain..And Crowd was better there too.. After this we did n't have enough strength to go anywhere. So we went back to our room..rested for an hour or two.. and after taking dinner we roamed around to see how it looked to be in Goa in the night.. Night was even better than the the day.. people were still going to the beaches, i could sense, not for taking a plug in it but to sit by it. we also went to the nearby beach and sat for an hour..
on 5th Oct we decided to see Vagatore beach and vagatore Fort where "Dil chahta hai " was picturised..There was nothing special about vagatore beach but equally different was the vagatore fort.. When we reached there at the fort, we could easily remember the frames of the film which were shot there.. We , tried to shoot it again.. How i wish i could say we succeeded :-) i was running out of time.. i had to reach madgaon to catch the train .. I tried my best but i missed my train by 5 mins.. Time is too precious a thing you can buy for yourself when you earnestly need it.. I had no other option but to go by valvo.. I took a ticket and waited for close to 4 hours and came back...
It wasn't bad .. was it...? not at all.....:-)
