Joey Lesh and Katie Coleman: The Next Step

Well, last we checked, Katie was sleeping …

This was in Miraj, to be fair, we had just finished a long day looking around the big Wednesday Market and were waiting for our train to Goa that left at 11pm.

The market was great fun with tons of kids, hot peppers, spicies and produce.

But, soon enough, we were off to Goa. Goa is a former Portuguese colony famed for its awesome beaches and all-night parties and is a favorite winter vacation spot for Europeans out to have some fun.

Seeing as it was the monsoon season, our experience on the beach was pretty quiet. We walked along the beautiful sandy beach to a restaurant Brittos where we enjoyed great fish curries and watched the waves roll in off the Arabian sea. It was a perfect place to be when the afternoon rain hit, we just ordered some caramel custard and waited the rain out!

Our hotel had a pool which was quite lovely for cooling off in the afternoon and a great place to meet new friends.

Our pool friend Hannah from Sweden joined us the next day to visit Old Goa, the heart of the Portuguese colony. Filled with chuches and cathedrals Old Goa was abandoned in the late 1700s and now lives on as a tourist haven. We did see the Basilica of Bom Jesus famous for holding the remains of St. Francis Xavier. St. Frances Xavier’s corpse is a heck of a celeberity and supposedly continues to grow hair and have his finger and toe nails grow as well. They take his body out nce every ten years to parade it around the main square, but many years ago a woman bit off his toe and they keep the body inside the coffin now. Look, you can see it thorugh the window!