After a few days of recovering, Vicky and I were all set for our 3 day bender at Sunburn festival!! Luckily a load of people from our hostel were going, so we all jumped in a taxi (the fezzie was at a different beach!)...to collect our tickets and go and partayyy on. the psy trance by this point was giving me a serious headache, so was looking forward to some decent mooosic...
Whilst queing up for our tickets we realised that we were the minority in terms of westerners going to the festival, but this seemed to work to our advantage as we were filmed several times by several camera crews. We were then interviewd by Indian TV, to which Vic (one of the South African guys!) managed to damage our "respectable" Western image by shouting out "LETS GET DRUNK AND CHUNDER!!" live on air. oh dear. Vicky was then filmed whilst getting her bag searched, and I was filmed sticking my bum in the air and giving it a good old slap. No change there.
The bars in the main arena were not serving alcohol until the evening. Whattt??!! so we went and sat on the beach to have some bevvies and play some drinking games. When we eventually went in, it was nearly time for the festival to finish...oops, but managed to catch a couple of DJs. Gabrielle and Dresdon in particular were fookin amazing...especially when they banged out a dubstep mix to one of their tunes. AMAZING!! After the fezzie we headed back to the beach, and met a group of lads from London...before heading back to the hostel for a good nights kip before DAY 2...
On day 2 of Sunburn we had to check into our LUXURIOUS appartment where we would be spending New year with our beloved Jollyon, Angie and Louisa. So we checked in and marvelled at the fluffy pillows, duvets and air con which was to be our home for the next week!! We then met up with the rest of the gang from our hostel and hit the fezzie. This was probably one of the most hilarious nights of my life!!! If you want details of why this night was so hilar, perhaps i will express only in a private message!!! One of the highlights was seeing Pete Tong when he played CASSIUS SOUND OF VIOLENCE-one of my all time fave songs, and a great way to finish the night!!
After the fezzie we went back to Anjuna to meet Angie and Louisa who had just arrived. it was so nice to see them!! We ended up on the beach stuffing our face with egg rolls (the local veggie kebaby and perfect for end of the night alcoholic munchies!!) The next day we were abruptly awoken by Jollyons arrival....again was soooo good to see him. He arrived with the land lady BEV, who wanted our payment for the appartment. We were all a bit zonked and as angie came in to give Bev the money she let off a massive fart (one of many angie explosions to come on this trip!!!)...Bev looked a little taken aback, whilst we were all in stitches!!
The 3RD day of Sunburn we hit the beach as usual, but only Vicky and I had tickets so we left the others to get pissed whilst we went in and partied. We saw Axwell and Above and Beyond.......omg i had a massive moment to Axwell "leave the world behind"....my love of house music has returned, i MUST visit ibiza next summer!! When the fezzie came to a close, we went to meet the others with the other london lads we had met........Joel had managed to attract a sugar daddy who kept following him around, and continued to get on the chairs and tables dancing until an Indian man came and hit him over the head with a plastic chair!! We moved swiftly on, and eventually to bed!!!
30TH JAN- this involved beach and sleeping, nothing more!!!
NEW YEARS EVE.....a night i will never forget!! I can honestly say it has been one of my best (if not THE BEST) new year to date. We decided to invite everyone to our appartment for drinks prior to party time. There were about 10 of us in the end...we all played "ring of fire".....got merry, got our bums out....the usual start to a good night!! We then hit one of the local psy trance parties at a venue called Hilltop. Its basically a place for complete and utter nutters, and we werent really in that state yet so we decided to head back to the beach to see the clock strike 12!!
When the clock did eventually strike 12....Joel and I decided to run down to the sea in the nudders. We ran down holding hands with our 2012 tiaras on, and as I flopped around in the waves I really had the sense of another fantasic year on the cards!! However as we scrambled back up through the waves, we realised we had attracted the whole beach to come and stare at our pasty naked bodies.....all dignity lost. most of them were indian men and had probably never seen a naked girl before. some-one shouted "get a t-shirt on that girl!!!".....to which about 20 indian men were offering up their t-shirts for me. It was a tad embarrassing, but at the same time liberating so I do not regret it!!
After the aftermath of nuddy beach, we went back to the party at Hilltop. The music was still horrendus, but we all had the giggles and were having a lafff. Especially Angie who could not STOP laughing at all the oddballs in there. There was the man with the dodgy moustache/the blond haired old man wonder in dungarees who Vicky kept mistaking for Louisa and a fat old hippy Joel and I kept pretending was our dad. We then got on stage and flashed our bums at the crowd. Dont think I will ever get over the need to make an idiot of myself onstage!!!!
As the music drilled into our souls we decided to head back to the bar "Lilliputs" on the beach....the music was wikkkkd, and I was not ready to go home!! Angie on the other hand was feeling rather peachy, so we all got in a taxi and dropped her off back at the appartment. By this point Vicky and Louisa had had enough too so they hit the hay, and Joel, myself and some boy he had adopted who we named FRODO BAGGINS made our way back to the party!! We named him Frodo as he looked like a hobbit and had hairy feet.
We were all set for a day of New Years debauchery...and started off by another naked skinny dip but in broad daylight!! Joel and Frodo went in first, and I hesitantly did the same. Oh dear. I have now made a pact with myself that I will no longer get naked in foreign countries, especially religious ones!! No-one seemed to care but i need to stop losing my dignity!!
Anyway, we went home eventually, woke up the next day feeling like some sort of alien species who did not belong on this planet, let alone in goa!! We all swore to ourselves we would NEVER drink again....maybe not the wisest decision!! However, the rest of our time in Anjuna involved being very chilled, catching the rays, eating, drinking tea and havin a good old nattter and catch up as old friends!!
We had one more night out at some club inland, which was ok. It was 600 rupees all you can drink which was pretty amazing!! but i think they spiked the alcohol as i felt simply horrendus the next day, as did we all. We were all sick, and had to catch a taxi to our next destination PALOLEM....feeling absolutely rancid, but ready to move on to quieter shores...
to be continued...
