A Trip to India…
February 5th, 2007 by robin
I am off to India tomorrow, to meet my friend Patrick. He and I went to school together. After university, as would be hippies, we hitch hiked from Scotland to Sri Lanka, and on the way stayed for three weeks in Goa in India.
Patrick works for third world charities and spends much of the year in very remote places, setting up social recovery programmes for children of wars. He takes four months off every year and wanders the world. For 20 years I have promised to join him at some point only to cancel when work overtook me.
This year Pat went to India and will be returning to Goa after a break of 29 years. So I have promised to meet him for a few days. I suspect I will not recognise the place, and being an old hippy at heart, will seek out the road less travelled by the big commercial tour operators, who have taken over so much of the beach front. When Patrick and I went there 29 years ago, we buried our small travel packs in the ground, then slept on the beach for two of the three weeks we were there, I suspect age and a general softening of my hardiness will see me make a bee line for a hotel with a comfy bed and air conditioning.
I will be in Mumbai for a meeting on the 13th, if any of the readers are in Mumbai, please get in touch, and let’s try to meet up.
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