Goa trip ( part 3)

2nd Sep 2011

We took our private Inova and headed towards Mangalore junction. Soon we reached the station, but I thought we had reached Mangalore’s ‘kabadkhana’. That’s because no one had cleaned the exterior walls of the station. Now if you want to visit Mangalore, please come by an aeroplane not a train. We were waiting for the train and I was feeling sleepy. Then Sankalp came to me and asked,” Why isn’t this train coming???” And that question was repeatedly going on in my head. The train wasn’t coming and I was getting tired. At about 11’o’clock the train came. We boarded the train and headed off to Goa. As we boarded the train, Sankalp told,” We are not going to play Uno Puno, but going to sleep” And that didn’t bug me, because I was going to do the same thing.

We found our seats and went to bed, but I couldn’t believe myself that I woke up at 3:00 in the morning! I asked mom if I could sit at the window and watch the view, but mom told, it would disturb the other people. So the only thing I could do was to just lie down. After 2 hours I again asked mom if I could watch the view and she told “yes”. Then I wore my slippers and went near Sandeep Uncle’s seat and asked,” Can you give me some place to sit…….please?” and he told sure, and I got some place to sit. The view was very nice. If you ever go to Goa, don’t forget to watch the early morning view with the sun rise. It looks very beautiful.

After 2 hours….

We got off the train and found a taxi. Sandeep Uncle told the driver to go to a place called Ginger hotel, but I like to call it “Ginger garlic” or”G.G” It took us 2 hours to get there. When I saw the exterior walls of the hotel, I thought we were going to live in some 2 star hotel. But when I went inside, it was mind blowing!!!! It turned out to be a decent hotel which had a T-Shirt shop and Café Coffee Day! The rooms were outstanding. There were 2 things I wanted to check first and foremost

Ø    The bathroom  shower

Ø    T.A.T.A sky connection

The bathroom shower was good but the Tata sky connection had no kids’ channel. I asked mom if we could subscribe and she replied, “We are not here to watch T.V.”. What she said, really made sense so I agreed with her.

see you in part 4

Goa trip (part 2)

After that Vatsal incident, mom told me to go and take a bath. You know what? I don’t like having bath using a bucket, but if there is a shower, I can shower for an hour or two! After I took my bath, my underwear was wet. I knew I couldn’t wear my pant over wet underwears. As I told you in part 1, the bathroom was like a sea, so I couldn’t change inside the bathroom, but I also could not change my underwears in front of so many people. Mom gave me an idea which was terrifying. The idea was she will be holding a towel, and while she does that, I’ll change my underwears. 


Soon we were all ready to go. Mom and dad told us that there is a special surprise for us, but it was just 1 big Inova car. Mom told, “It is not any Inova. It’s a private Inova !” . I liked the idea that the car would be with us for the whole day and we could go anywhere we wanted.

Inova had 3 parts. The front, the middle and the back part. The kids sat first. I you ever wanted to find Sankalp and Vastal, it’s simple. The kid sitting in the front would be Sankalp. The kid sitting at the back would be Vatsal, and now you would have guessed where you could find me – obviously in the middle part. You might be thinking, how can anyone sit at the back, when there is a seat in the middle? Guess, guess......

Without having an Inova, you cannot get the answer, but you cannot spend all that money, so I’ll just tell you. It’s not an educational thing or something great, but it’s important to tell you two things. There are 2 parts of the middle seat.

1)   This part is a normal seat

2)  There is a button in the middle seat which can be pressed to break half the seat at an angle so that you can go to the back seat.

We first went to a place called “back waters”, and then we took a boat ride to “thanirbhavi beach”. I had a lot of fun in the ferry. After we reached the shore, we saw a forest.  Actually the forest was pretty small and people were sleeping on hammocks. Soon we crossed the forest and I saw some blue thing and wow !!It turned out to be the sea.

I enjoyed at the sea beach. This was my first trip to it. The thing which was best at the beach was sea shells. We collected a lot of those. I think anybody visiting Mangalore should definitely see this beach because it is one of the best beaches in the whole world.

Soon it was time for us to have Lunch. We went to a restaurant and I had butter naan and gravy. I think I am turning into a punjabi because I like punjabi food.

After lunch, we started again for sight-seeing. The worst part in the whole trip was the visit to temples. I don’t understand one thing about parents. If we pass by a temple, they would definitely like to visit the temple. We visited so many temples. If you see gods, in one temple, I see no reason to go to another because there are same gods in all of them. Mom says that we should keep thanking god for all the blessings. But I think even the gods would get bored of blessing us so many times.

But I must say that the Kudremukh temple is the best temple. There was a fountain inside the temple area. The water was coming out of Shiv ji’s head. You remember the story of saint Bhagirathi who prayed to ganga ji to come on earth. But the water flow was destructing everything. Then Shiv ji trapped the water in his hair and released only a small part, which is called Ganga.

Then it was time for us to pick our luggage from the hotel and board another train to Goa.

More about my trip to Goa in part 3…...

Goa trip

30^th Sep 2011, Morning 6 AM

Today I got both good news and bad news. The good news was that I was going to Goa with my best friend Sankalp and his family and the bad news was that today was my computer SA. Wish me best of luck because if I mess up in my exam, my mother will cancel the Goa trip.

After 12 hours ……

I am glad because my exam was way easy than I had thought of and now we are ready to go to Goa. Yahoo!!!!!!! We took an auto and rushed to the Majestic Railway station. After we reached the railway station, my Dad called up Sankalp’s father – Sandeep Gupta. We found our way to the platform where the Guptas were waiting for us. I met my friend and was glad to meet the whole Gupta family – Sankalp, his younger brother Vatsal and his parents.

1 hour later

I thought we were going to go to Goa directly, but I was wrong. We had to go to Mangalore first! Mom and dad told me that they couldn’t get tickets in the direct train to Goa. I was happy for that mishap because now I would get to travel one more place - Mangalore. Soon the Mangalore express came and we boarded the train.

 As soon as we boarded the train, I started felling hungry, so I ate 1 packet of wafers. I was felling bored too, because the kids of the Gupta family were just watching out of the window. Sankalp is an artist and he loves to watch nature which is quite unlike me. I asked Sankalp if we could play Uno, but he replied,” Not now”, and that’s the thing which really bugs me about that boy. During the whole trip Sankalp didn’t even think of playing Uno even once. It was tough and boring for me to sit quietly. I have to learn from Sankalp how to do that. 

1^st Oct 2011 - Morning in Mangalore

We got off the train and found an 8 seater taxi. After getting into the taxi, Dad told the driver to go to Kavita Residency. Dad booked only one room for all of us. This meant that there were only two purposes for hiring 1 room. They were,

Ø To keep our luggage.

Ø For taking a bath.

We went into our room and sat for a while. After that the parents asked the kids to take bath first. Sankalp and his small brother Vatsal went in the bathroom first. After some time Sankalp shouted,” prerak! The bathroom has turned into a sea!!!”

I went to check it out, and found something that was horrible! Vatsal was taking a bath by sitting inside the bucket. I knew why Vatsal was inside the bucket, because the bathroom was filled with water, and the bathroom drain was not working. If you ever book a room in Kavita Residency, make sure that the bathroom drain is proper.     

end of part 1............. keep reading my blog for more on Goa trip