This really was a "chill-out" holiday rather than serious travelling, so we spent most days on the beach. Palolem is not a working town:- you can buy basic holiday needs from kiosks on the beach (include major displays of toilet rolls), or the range of shops on two roads, but there is not even an ATM for cash. This meant a couple of walks to the outskirts of Chaudi and back, jumping in and out of the verge. One Saturday we went to the town proper in an auto-rickshaw (tuk-tuk) to see the fruit and vegetable market. We also located the Post Office, tentatively putting our postcards into a rusty cylinder, but it seems they did arrive! There is also a "supermarket" which was worth a visit! We looked into a recommended breakfast place and decided it was too dark and crowded, so tuk-tuked back to the German Bakery - a place rather different from our German Bakery on the prom in Corralejo!
The Live Music scene is interesting, and also not dissimilar from Corralejo's, with the same artists appearing at different bars on different nights - and some of them very good! These bars are all on the beach, and some light a bonfire when there is activity. On our first such evening we were joined at the table by a young, well-off and well-educated Goan couple. and found ourselves invited for a full-day boat-trip and picnic on Honeymoon or Butterfly Beach in a few days' time. It was a very generous offer, and we got excited about it, but then got worried about the etiquette, and so pulled out citing (truthfully) our need at the time to be close to a toilet! We will never know what we missed.
The Live Music scene is interesting, and also not dissimilar from Corralejo's, with the same artists appearing at different bars on different nights - and some of them very good! These bars are all on the beach, and some light a bonfire when there is activity. On our first such evening we were joined at the table by a young, well-off and well-educated Goan couple. and found ourselves invited for a full-day boat-trip and picnic on Honeymoon or Butterfly Beach in a few days' time. It was a very generous offer, and we got excited about it, but then got worried about the etiquette, and so pulled out citing (truthfully) our need at the time to be close to a toilet! We will never know what we missed.A couple of bars away from the beach show films at night. All the usual suspects were shown, but we feel we selected the perfect match for a Goan bar in Mr Nice at "The Steak House". The film is projected from a laptop onto a sheet, and you watch it whilst eating your steak, Thai noodles or whatever, with the moon in the clear sky, and - later - not unrelated smoke and smells!
We did not, predictably, visit Silent Noise at Neptune Point, but heard the stories! Punters are frisked for MP3's, drugs and alcohol, so the clever way round pricey drinks seems to be to hide an innocent-looking bottle of spirit-laden Coke in a spot outside. Ah, to be young again!!
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