Motorcycle Diaries

We decided it was time to move out from Palolem for the day so we hired some scooters and hit the road well I wouldnt actually call it a road as they are amazingly awful. Another problem on the roads are the obstacles you face, basically Old McDonalds farm wander the roads and cause chaos, I had buffalo, dogs, cats, cows, millipieds, hens and tramps wandering in the middle of the road. To get to some of the places we also had to go down dirt roads, I say dirt roads but that does not really do it justice of how bad the back roads were. So we travelled North on these 'roads' and the first stop was Agonda beach. Agonda is totally different to Palolem, it is very quiet and not much there, there are not as many palm trees either, it is also not ideal to swim as the current is strong although we did go in the water and I was taught how to Body Board by Geoff who is from Melbourne. Imagine Geoff as a sort of Wave whisperer ha ha. Many of the people I am meeting are from all different parts of the world and have travelled to many many which is why I think they relished in telling me the worst parts of travelling in Australia. Tales of bites from White Tails (Spider) where Hally's hand rotted and could see through his muscle, crocs, sharks, currents with names 'Backpacker express' and also the infamous drop bear, bears with massive claws that drop from trees and maul backpackers! This turned out to be a massive lie that all backpackers are told. From Agonda beach we travelled to Cola beach where we had to take this dirt road that was basically not fit for scooters but the views were breath taking (Sorry no photos didnt take camera but will steal friends to show you all). Cola beach is again not fit for swimming and even the Wave whisperer didnt venture in but they had a 'blue la

goon' near by which we cooled off in. It was more green lagoon than blue but again this place had no other people on the beach and looked every bit the paradise beach. From there we travelled another 10 km to Cabo de ramma fort which is a massive fort situated high on a hill where the Portugease would look out for invading countries, from here we could see another beach that looked contained but there were no roads leading there so we bi

ked across this type of field and found the route down. Betul beach (I think) was the best one so far, palms 15 deep line the 300 meter beach and there were only a handful of locals there. We went into the sea which was strong but after 20 minutes or so we didnt realise we had been washed into the path of a rip (under current) until it practically dragged us back, smiles and laughing turned into shepheards pie in our pants as it took a lot of effort to get out of this as we were swimming we were staying in the same spot but not swimming we were moving out to sea. We survived and Geoff told us that if we had got into more trouble we would have had to ride the current out and swim across!

I have bought some more clothes as I am feeling like a tramp, from the evolution of tramp to man I am at stage 3! I smell like a mountain goat and I have the beard back! Although I have been given some highly sort after supplies from Gavin who has headed home today. I have some proper hair styling products!!!!

Palolem is the most social place I have ever been to and I would highly reccomend it to people looking for a holiday. I am meeting people from all over the world with hundreds of different experiences but I am finding the funniest and most fun people are from good old England! e.g. I have been told of some really fun extreme travelling- Ramboism: Dress as Rambo and see how far you can make it across Bhurma. There are also some others, Bin Ladin: Dress as Osama and trek across America and my fav Coleism where you have to dress like Ashley Cole and travel across North London.

2012 London are hosting the Olympics and I think they should include Jenga! We had a World Jenga game with participants from Sweden,

Finland and Australia. Team GBR let us down!

Well im off now but I am hoping to get up early one day and Kayak to Monkey Island to see Monkeys and Dolphins! 0700 early!!!! Might be easier to stay out all night and do it straight from the beach bar!