For our annual vacation this year, after sifting through various locations, we decided on Goa.
Shivaram’s family, Santhosh’s family and we started from Bangalore on 19 th Nov by bus and reached
Goa at about 10am next day. We had already made our booking in Santana Beach Resort. We reached
the resort, had breakfast and retired to the rooms. The resort was well maintained, the rooms were
spacious and had a kitchen attached as well. After relaxing for a while, we went to the beach in the
evening. It was good fun. We then had dinner was called it a day. As we had planned this vacation to
relax from our normal busy schedules, we did not make any plans to venture out.
The next morning, we finished breakfast and decided to go around the city in bikes. We hired 4 bikes
from the resort and went to Candolim beach. The beach was quite crowded. While Shivaram, Santhosh
and kids enjoyed in the beach, Meera and I went to the shack to relax for a while. We had some
prawns, chicken and crabs for lunch. As there was not much to do in the beach we rode back to the
resort and spent the evening again in the pool and beach. As the next day was my birthday we cut the
cake at midnight. It was a great birthday indeed…!
Day 3 was a relaxing day and we spent it idling at the resort. We had some late breakfast and spent
the rest of the day in the resort. Evening was again in the pool and beach. It must be said here that the
beach is the best part of the resort. It was shallow and the tides were really welcoming. We never got
bored of spending long hours in the beach. It was Santhosh’s wife Geetha’s birthday today and so we
cut another cake at midnight. We had ordered lobsters for dinner today and we totally relished it…
Day 4 was the last day of our trip and we went for the city tour organized by makemytrip. We visited
the dolphins park and the Church during the tour. As we found the tour quite tiring, we got off at
about 3pm and got into a resort in Panjim for rest of the evening. Our bus back to Bangalore was at
7pm and reached home next morning.
