Travelling alone to Goa

Hi,

I'm thinking of going to Goa on my own in November, for 2 weeks. I'm
going to be using air miles to get to Delhi and then somehow getting
from Delhi to Goa (train or plane, I suppose), so I won't actually be
travelling with any tour operator. I've never really been outside of
Western Europe before apart from a very short trip to the USA, so it'll
be the first time I've visited a country like India.

I'm just wondering if anybody could tell me what it would be like for
somebody to visit on their own (single, male, 24), because all the
reports that I've read so far have been from couples who've stayed
there. Is it primarily a honeymoon destination? One website I read
warned against travelling to India alone, but another said that the
people of Goa are the friendliest you could hope to meet and violent
incidents are very rare.

I'm also wondering about what's the best accommodation to go for - I
don't mind if it's really basic, as long it's fairly clean and
vermin-free. Has anybody ever stayed in one of these beach huts that
I've read about?

Any advice about Goa at all would be really appreciated, especially the
best places to go if I want to avoid most of the tourists.

Cheers,

John