lovely Agonda

I am living now in Agonda in southern Goa. Agonda is a small relaxed town, much more laid back than Anjuna. Everything is situated on a road right along the beach and I can walk everywhere I need to go, or take a rickshaw if I want to visit Palolem, a bigger town not too far away.

 I found a very sweet place to live: a room connected the house of a cute Goan family. The room has its own entrance and bathroom and my favorite part is the lovely porch. My neighbors are a nice older man from Germany who rents the other guest room, and the family of course. They are several generations living together and I mainly talk to Elisa the matriarch, and her daughter because they speak the best english.

 

My days begin with yoga. Sometimes self practice with my friend Joanna on the beach or alone on the porch, and sometimes a drop in class that in offered on a beautiful balcony just a 20 minute walk down the road.

And they end with the sunset. Cliche perhaps but it is truly amazing. I think I had forgotten how magical it is when that big burning entity too bright for the eyes becomes a small gold coin touching the distant waters before it slips out of sight faster than you'd think.