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Just received this Google Alert

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...ow/5804372.cms

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1,793 visas - wow!
if the figures for total foreign tourists are to be believed that is slightly over a tenth of 1% were 'visa on arrival'.
I wonder how that compares with the number of '2-month break needed so no arrival'?

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Couldn't agree more. I'm always amazed at what they "crow" about.
What about the bigger picture?

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[QUOTE=powerhouse;8498179]hope your accomodation is AC - it ain't arf 'ot mom!

AndyD 8-)#

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[QUOTE=a_f_d;8498467]Our house is in Candolim and fully air conditioned, mind you after the winter we have just had I can't wait to be all hot and sweaty.

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http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/wo...-in-india.html

and

http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%...ils/35873.html

Nice to see the indians have got their priorities right as usual, innit?

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Love Milwarts reading material! x

The Indian government has vowed to end open defecation by 2012.
:rofl::rofl:

Yes and the Princess will be removed from Candolim beach next year. :zzz:

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That cracked me up too Noni, ending "open defacation" anywhere in india is like trying to stop the drawing of breath. A few years back our immediate neighbours in Calangute were "gifted" a toilet to replace their so-called pig toilet, but certain members of the family carried on crapping in the garden in full view of all and sundry. And they were native Goans, not immigrants!

Lets face it, its what they do. Where else have you seen large signs beside the road saying "please do not urinate here"? Dont forget, you should respect your host country and all its dirty habits!

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LOL!
People used to crap in my backyard probably for centuries, and I had to raise the wall to stop that and the rampant gambling in the very same backyard.
It was large enough that I never had to set a foot in there, thank God.

My cats proudly showing me Cobras as their trophies (luckily all of them already dead) caught there, no doubt, during the monsoons, was the final straw to make me consider again before doing so. :eek:

And the places are getting scarcer and scarcer. Wonder where they do their "business" nowadays, as all neighboring plots have been "developed" by erecting new multi-story apartment complexes.

Not my problem anymore. God bless the poor soul who takes over. With all due respect to my former host country.

Yours
Steph

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We were out in the jeep turning up one of the side roads to Nerul, and at the bottom of a garden the goan had a "new loo" there he was, door open, sitting there having a crap waving to all who went by! :rofl::rofl: :rolleyes: bless!!!

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I have noticed many less than complimentary comments about 'India', 'Indians' followed by a sarcastic remark about 'respect for your country'. Goa is a mainly rural community with many also trying to make a living from the tourist Industry. There are few sophisticates who have property abroad or retire to luxury. Yes there are millions of such poor people in India about 300 million in fact.
India has a population of 1 billion with millions of middle class and wealthy people who are also upset at the sight of individuals defaecating and spitting. They are also 'Indians'.
Yes the Congress Gov. should be ashamed at how little they have achieved but so should various British Governments, there are still people living in great poverty In the UK.

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Unfortunately Bipat - I agree about both Governments, unfortunately those who make a living through tourism are going to find the next season very poor. Many of your fellow 'indians' were complaining this season about how bad the season was for British Tourists, as they are the ones that spent not the Russians/domestic tourists. Although I must admit the Russians in our Shack (except for one family) were decent and respectable people.

All the Goan government seems to be doing is inaugurating tarmac, roads etc . congratuating themselves on themselves, instead of getting on with the job they are paid to do.

p.s. why bother to build pavements - they are already parking their bikes on them, perhaps they will have traffic wardens next :rofl:

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Noni, I am British, only an 'Indian' by marriage, my point was that all Indians are not spending their time defaecating and spitting in public as other contributers seem to think. Just as I spend a deal of time explaining to (some) of my Indian relatives that not all 'British' are the same in their various shortcomings.

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It is not just Indians who defacate in public - I was sat in a beach shack in Arambol one early evening and a 'new age' looking Israeli family were sat at the next table. The shack was quite busy with people eating. Despite there being a large sign for the toilets, the female told her child, who looked about 8 or 9 years old, to go to the toilet next to the table - at which point the child defacated there and then in the sand! A short while later one of the males at the same table went to the side of the shack and urinated down the wall. The family were so nonchalant about this that I think it was normal behaviour for them.
Mind you that said, I've been into a few squats in the UK and the inhabitants are less than choosy about where they drop their waste ! !

Dread - talking crap :ohmy:
x

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There are are people on low incomes in the UK and people begging in the streets when there is help available to them so they should not need to beg. What is classed as poverty in the UK mostly relates to people with small children on benefits some of whom just keep on having children.
An article in the Mail the other day showed a family of 2 adults neither of whom work and 7 children who were receiving £40,000.00 a year in state benefits. Poverty in India is people with nothing who are literally starving.
The UK gives millions in aid to India every year but still people die and go blind from easily preventable diseases, to which an improvement in hygiene standards would make a big difference, while the Indian Government wastes money on a totally unnecessary space program amongst other things and the State government wastes money on fact finding trips and the like when they could find the facts they need on the internet or just by talking to their own people and tourists. I love India, I love Goa but if India wants foreign tourists to keep going and taking their foreign currency into the country something needs to be done. I am back in the UK now but shortly before I left I was out in a taxi and some Indians shouted obscenities at me for no apparent reason, they were in a car with a Goan registration.