With Alfred's posts I am constantly amazed at the old-timers in Goa and through them their second and third generations that he knows or has been friends with or at the very least had some form of contact or other in his lifetime.
Simply put, Alfred knows almost everyone in Goa once worth knowing. Goanetters may not be aware, but Alfred in the Goa of his time, was a well-known vagabond, rebel, in-your-face kind of mischief maker and the scourge of all the Salcette Bamon stiff upper-lipped families that once held sway over land and property that was valuable not for the prices that they fetch in today's world but because of the enormous acreage they had come into via inheritance and swindling both their Bamon and non-Bamon brothers and sisters. Property was not all they stole. Rumors abound of some of the male members of those families picking a lot of cherries through wile and promise. Note I said that Alfred was a scourge of such people and not a participant with them. OK Alfred, my lips are sealed. Many happy years of Swedish hedonism to our Alfred the journalist as he is known in his native Loutulim. May his spirits never lag. Roland. Toronto. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------