Goa- one of the best places along the Arabian 

It was during my posting in Belgaum I got the chance to visit Goa, one of the best places along the Arabian Ocean spread in a large area in our country right from Gujarat to Kerala.

I met a young man named Khan in Belgaum, a boy almost my age or maybe a 1or 2 years older than me and I liked the guy instantly. He was from the previous batch of management trainees from the same institute where I completed my management schooling. The boy belonged to Bangalore from the famous Khan family and a distant relative of famous film actors Feroz and Sanjay Khan.

He was smart looking chap, handsome and tall like the other Khans from Bangalore. He did not have engineering background like me so he looked after the seminar and arrangements besides coordination with our client companies.

He was staying in a local hotel on monthly rent basis suggested me to stay there when I was transferred to Belgaum office as the railway and bus stand were nearby and food he said was reasonable. I did just that but the real story began on Friday noon during the lunch hour when he asked me if I was interested to go to Goa for a weekend. I liked the idea as Panjim the capital of Goa was only a little over 110 km.

There was no direct bus from Belgaum to Panjim so we took a bus for Londa at about 4 pm and changed one for Panjim from there. By 7 we were in Panjim where we stayed overnight and the first thing we did next morning was to leave for Calngute beach. We stayed there for 2 nights until Monday morning that became my schedule for rest of my 2 years’ stay in Belgaum. I visited Goa the wonderful state at least 60-70 times during my posting in Belgaum.

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