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Freddy Fernandes, your article really made me feel so very nostalgic. What a beautiful description of Goa of the bygone days!!. I do remember the "zor" (spring) in Vagathor. We always spent our summer vacation in Vagathor. Mum rented a house and all our stuff, utensils, clothes, foodstuff like rice, sausages, chillies, spices, pickles, mangoes etc. would be packed in wooden trunks and loaded on a bullock cart, which would trundle off to Vagathor. There every morning we would go for a paddle in the blue, clean sea and then head straight to the spring at the foot of the hill where the fort is. This was supposed to be very rejuvenating for the body. That spring water was something out of this world. No Evian can compare to it. I wonder if that spring still exists? We did exactly what Freddy described and a few more things like plucking raw mangoes, gently easing out the seed and filling it with salt, tamarind and some hot masala and relishing it as if it was manna from heaven at the risk of getting a terrible sore throat.We climbed right up the hill barefooted and the soles of the feet were so tough that no stones bothered us. Snakes were a plenty, but they bothered us not. Man, beasts, birds and reptiles lived in perfect harmony unlike today. Nowadays. the snakes have slithered down the hills because of man's intrusion on their habitat. There is so much of infighting amongst the village people, just as there is amongst those who rule the state. Alas! there are too many changes for the worse. Bernice Pereira Bernice Pereira 102 Eken Heights Junction of 21st/33rd Roads, Bandra, Mumbai 400050 Tel: 26007212 Share files, take polls, and make new friends - all under one roof. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/