--- JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Talking Photos: Goan Delicacies (some more added) > > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=213413960&size=l > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/307445126/ > Mario responds: > Here I am, eating a hamburger and French fries, with the prospect of going outdoors in 5 degree weather, and Joe keeps sending these pictures of Goan beaches and Goan delicacies! > Joe, how can you be so cruel and heartless???:-))) > Makes me wish I were back in sunny Goa - won't be long - that beautiful land where my ancestors roamed. > Descended from fierce Maratha mountain warriors according to the research of Carmo, a famous systems engineer in Florida [Did you know he went to IIT?], they apparently laid down their arms and tilled the fields in a place grandiosely named "Saviour of the World". > Aahhh! Goa, where east meets west, where the people are hot and the food even hotter - the most exquisite cuisine in the world - and the local booze is to die for as we say in far too distant expatriate-sthan. > Oohhh!, Goa, the well kept open secret that has now been discovered by rapacious hordes from around the world, and which exists in joyful and sussegad and sometimes charming, sometimes frustrating chaos that gives Goan refugees like Roland - who muses about how lousy Goa has become since he left and does so from freezing and highly organized Canada - and Selma - who pines for what Goa ought to be from equally cold and highly organized Minnesota - nightmares:-))) > I can't wait to get back to what some consider an evolving Goa and others consider a devolving Goa. > Sounds like a place where sausage is being made as the inimitable Winston Churchill was once heard to opine about a democracy in action:-)) >
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