New Years Eve in Goa

Today is New Years Eve. We got things started last night watching two football (Soccer for us!) games in the pub in the hotel. There are many English travellers here, our friends said they like to be known as English vs British...what a wild crowd going for their favoured teams! One man had his wife finally yell at him - just shut up, just shut up you bloke! We were cracking up!

Susie is a fan of wisky if she has a drink and she has converted me - you just cannot have soda that is from a fountain...as it has local water, beer too filling in the heat - wine...forget it...ha - so we have an occasional glass of wiskey, hoping the alcohol will kill any germs in the glass!

The military are out full time on the beach today - the revellers for New Years are filling the beach and they are maintaining control - I noticed them last night where there were about 50 on my walking stretch of the beach, there had been none before. This is the more family part of Goa - so you don't have a lot of wild college partiers, but lots of Indians come here to party with their families and many Brits come here year after year.

This is the local paper the Navhind Times
There was a crazy parade last night - for Christmas or New Years...complete with Santa and JingleBells and all sorts of marti-gras like floats - and also firecrackers! Went right in front of the pub - very fun. They are preparing all day for the party - this is a sample - the banana tree stalks have what attached to them you say? Yes those are shrimp for supper...on toothpicks...interesting presentation for sure!

We have only the rest of today and tomorrow in Goa - our time has flown!