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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, good time had by all. Just goes to show that one does not have to gravitate to the five-star resorts for good fun. Correia-Afonso is a gem. Dear Germana so often referred to his S.J. brothers. How interesting the genetic system is; he looks for all the world like his renowned Architect cousin. It was great fun, but just a little hectic. Poor overworked staff couldn't get my food order straight; I would have been starving if not for fact that Tony Correia Afonso got through to them for his platter of good fish & chips---so I ate up half his stuff. Next time it is done I recommend *Horseshoe* (near Avanti on Ourem Creek road. We get that genial Angolan chef-proprietor to open up at noon and do a simple buffet of greens/soups/cheese, etc. @ abt 200 'rip-offs' (my slang translation for 'rupee') per person. It might be a titch 'old colonial', but we must not stand on conventions of nationalist patriotic sentiment---when there's really good food to be had! On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > **** Annual Goanetters Meet **** > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm > > Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) > > Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact > details > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Just to say a thank you to everyone who showed up at today's Goanet > get-together at the Panjim Residency (former Tourist Hotel), which was > both well-attended and lively. Thanks to Tony de Sa for his idea of > having a lunch-time meeting (instead of a tea-time one, as we usually > do) and for suggesting a more-central Panjim venue. This was perhaps > one of our best-attended meetings ever. > > I think everyone met (almost) everyone else, and despite the lack of a > formal agenda we did enjoy getting to meet one another. (My complaint: > I already know almost everyone!) > > A special surprise was having Tony Correia-Afonso, one of our very > earliest members (he's been there before me) at the meet. We will miss > the kind, generous and knowledgeable Dan Driscoll if he keeps to his > threat of quitting Goa this year! We did miss some of those who > already left Goa (including Victor Carneiro of the US, Menin Rodrigues > the amazing networker of Karachi and others), but this was in part > made up for by the lesser pressures on everyone with the festivities > now behind us. > > If 2010 was a Pakistani Goanetters special, this year it was an > ex-Kenya and Portugal Goanetters meet up! Waiting for the others > present to send in their comments and reports... FN > -- > FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org > Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books > Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Protect Goa's natural beauty > > Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve > > Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------