Re: The Guardian: Christmas in Goa.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Eddie Fernandes <eddie-7L0KtwoX/iQYCJUz++X1lEEOCMrvLtNR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Goanet@Goacom. Com <goanet-fkB0aodkGtPQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:52 AM
Subject: [GOANET] The Guardian: Christmas in Goa.


> Source: The Guardian. 23 November 2002.
>
> Headline: Deck the hall with bougainvillea - Can't face another year of
> turkey and mince pies? Louise Nicholson and family spend Christmas in Goa,
> breakfasting on papaya and bathing in the Arabian sea.
>
> By Louise Nicholson.
>
> Feature article (1,424 words) with photographs at
> http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,845562,00.html
>
> Excerpts:
>
> It was Christmas Day in sun-drenched Goa. Multi-coloured tinsel, plastic
> reindeers and plenty of cottonwool snow decorated our hotel.
>
> .we mixed lazy hotel life with land trips, renting a car and driver - only
a
> fool would drive his family around India, even in laid-back Goa.
>
> At Margao we found the fish market where fisherwomen crouch, cheroot
between
> lips, beside baskets of shrimp, sardines and prawns.
>
> .we went down the coast to the uba dando, or straight road, the 12-mile
> stretch of beach in south Goa, stopping at little villages such as Baga
> [sic] to take a sunset walk along the beach and pause at one of the little
> beach shacks for a dish of grilled tiger prawns and a glass of feni.
>

How come this travel consultant places Baga in South Goa when it is actually
in North Goa?!

Jorge


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