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GOA, INDIA

Why go back? In a nutshell, it’s the local people that make Goa special. It helps, of course, that the sun shines constantly in the winter months, the food is a delicious mix of spices and herbs and you can shop at a fraction of UK prices. But when the Portuguese finally pulled out after ruling this little corner of India for more than 400 years, they left behind a delightful polyglot of Christians, Muslims and Hindus who always make holidaymakers feel welcome. Cattle graze in the lush countryside curious children tug your sleeve wanting to know which football team you support. It all comes with a smile.


www.goanvoice.org.uk. from Daily Mirror.

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The only kids who have ever tugged at my sleeve are those ones in Calangute Main Street and Mapusa market - the professional beggars wanting my rupees !!!

Dread - x

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First time we visited Goa a small boy said "hello mr big belly" to my OH, he found it highly amusing.

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All sounds a bit "Mills & Boonish" to me.......:D

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Tower Hamlets Taliban: Death threats to women who don't wear veils. Gays attacked in the streets. And all in a borough at the heart of Britain's capital...


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MDr2OSfZ
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Good laugh Kernow innit!

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Crazed knifeman decapitates British woman in busy Tenerife shopping centre and runs through the streets with her head

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MFHkjrGw

How 'orrible.

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And you worry about handbag snatching in Goa!!

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this could happen anywhere - by the sounds of it he is mentally disturbed . a tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time - how sad for the deceased and her family

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Just could not believe he could cut her head off, right there, in the shop.

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Just goes to show that there are some very sad disturbed people in this world. But at least Osama Bin Laden isn`t any more!!!

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Apparently he used a knife that he stole from the shop she was near/in! Bloody unbelievable, what sort of shop was it that sells knives capable of decapitating someone!

Yes, having a handbag snatched must be very upsetting but keeping things in perspective, this event in Tenerife is horrendous.

Best wishes

H.

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Keith Vaz for right to appeal for family visitor visas in UK 13 May:

Economic Times. Leading NRI Labour MP Keith Vaz has cautioned the British government against going ahead with its leaked plans to do away with the right of appeal for family visitor visas, saying such a move would affect millions of families and Britain's relations with its partners abroad… more than 80,000 relatives of British families are refused visas to visit them each year… figures show that only 25 per cent of appeals were dismissed last year
www.goanvoice.org.uk

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This more sensible article in the Navhind clarifies;

http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/...st-tourism-goa


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he had a history of violence and from what i can gather from this article he sounds completely off his rocker - in spite of this he was allowed to roam freely ? very bizarre . there was a similar incident here in canada a couple of years ago - someone was decapitated in a greyhound bus .