Headline: Asia minors Source: The Guardian. 27 July 2002 at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4469160,00.html
1,592 words. Excerpts: The Foreign Office this week advised that it is once again safe to travel to India. Louise Nicholson, who has visited the country more than 130 times, describes how she introduced her two young sons to the sub-continent. India was inevitable. We had honeymooned there, blissfully. Later, our first son was conceived there, and my two pregnancies were mostly spent working there. So it was with great restraint that we waited until William and Oliver reached seven and five before introducing them to the country I find the most stimulating, inspiring and sheer fun. Friends thought we were either mad or irresponsible, or both. Fortunately, both boys took to India with gusto. They relished the radically different culture in all its variations. …The cheapest flights were to Goa, so we booked a package deal there and broke out of it by booking hotels and internal flights ourselves. Goa's rich mix of south Indian and Portuguese cultures is an ideal gateway into India. We started with a week at Cidada de Goa, a family-run beachside hotel outside the capital, Panjim. It has large gardens, good restaurants and quality facilities, all strung around a child-safe bay that is also free of hawkers. We happily launched into Christmas Goan style. We went sailing to the tune of "We saw three ships", joined groups of carol singers on the beach, took a sunset boatride on the Mandovi River, and went to inspect Old Goa's ruins by boat up a forgotten canal, where we paused for home-cooked lunch with a local farmer. …Two years later, we again started in Goa, this time down in the south to enjoy the long sandy beach, Margao town and the thoroughly non-PC Great Indian Circus, whose elephants played cricket and whose tigers roared furiously. Louise Nicholson, based in New York, is a personal travel consultant on India and has been travelling there and writing about the country for more than 20 years. To know more about her tours and customised itineraries, e-mail her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++++++++++++++++++++++++ She has written: Odyssey Illustrated Guide to Goa. Paperback - 247 pages (March 1997) Local Colour Publishers; ISBN: 9622174159 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
