Tyler Cowen shares his Goa ramblings:
The Portuguese colonial churches are eerily like colonial Brazil, yet no one lives in old Goa any more. My guide claims the state of Goa is 45 percent Christian. My hotel practices Restaurant Apartheid and won’t let me sit with the Indian customers. They try to talk me out of eating the Goan foods (‘don’t you want the chicken breast Sir? Very nice pastries…’, etc.). The white pumpkin curry is amazing. Goa is far less densely populated than I had expected; the major city has only about 80,000 people. One meal experience can involve being served by eight different people, none of whom ever stand more than ten feet away from you and each of whom you must say goodbye to.