by thatfestivallife | Jan 23, 2018 | Festival Reviews, Festivals in Asia, India
And so Festival Season 2018 commences…. as my two Indian festivals of 2017 (GOAT in January and Magnetic Fields in December) neatly bracketed the year does this mean there is no such thing as an actual festival season anymore!? I wasn’t planning on...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 26, 2017 | India, Travel
Gypsy lady at the Night Market Whilst I lived in Arambol last time, the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, Goa was one of the main weekly social events I went to. The first time I went I couldn’t believe the scale of it and how well it was organised… I...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 22, 2017 | Travel
Mandatory Santa hat in the sea! I’ve had hot Christmases before, once when I was tiny and living in Cyprus and once when I was 9 in Australia, but they have always with my mum & dad so last Christmas when I was in Goa was my first ever proper orphan...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 14, 2017 | Festival Reviews, Festivals in Asia, India
A state wide booze ban for election week, no wifi, a broken foot, licensing issues, resizing of venue two weeks before the festival, drastic downsizing, cutting artists, haggling, delhi belly, another change of venue 1 week before the festival, a case of typhoid,...
by thatfestivallife | Dec 2, 2017 | India, Travel
Salty sea hair I planned to come to Goa straight after Mumbai to acclimatise bit and chiiiiill out on a beach for a while. After the most horrendous 13 hour bus from Mumbai (…seriously that’s another story), getting off at the wrong stop and then...