Hope you made him pay the lot !!

Dread - x

Hi Nige Ang

It's going away from Calangute towards the creek end, but quite a bit before you reach the estuary. Look for La Calypso Hotel (which is visible on both the main road and from the beach) and it is just before that as you walk towards Baga. (turn right onto beach from end of CSM Rd and walk about 5 - 10 mins along the beach).
The sizzlers and biryani there are worth the little walk !! And the seafood.... ooh !
Enjoy

Dread - salivating now !
x

Hi Dreadsoc

Oh yes we did - they had to use two of their credit cards....

Thanks for the info, will have to give it a go. pity about the other shacks. Anything happening with the beach sellers?

Very miserable people to say the least.

I`ve just been told Christmas holiday has been changed to just Holiday in the UK. Any truth in this?
Regards,
Davie.

This has been tried before by some stupid council that thought it was politically correct. I call them stupid because I would say it is more politically correct to leave the Christmas holiday as it is. No one would dare suggest that Eid or Diwalli or Honiker get renamed (apologies if the spelling is wrong) but they are too busy worrying about other religions and seem to think that Christians have no rights. If they want equality in religion then they should make official holidays for all religious groups on their religious days and let people choose which they take off from work or school or whatever.

It's hardly a surprise that the BNP are getting voted into political positions when stupid people in local or national government do moronic things like this ! This sort of ridiculous ruling just manifests itself in racism, and hardly encourages the harmonious existence of multi culturalism in Britain.

Gawd help us with idiots like this in power !!!!

Dread - Where is the balance ?
x

It`s now called Winterfest in my town

Fight back Folks!

Always write CHRISTMAS, never Xmas.

Use the word as often as possible.

Choose your cards carefully to emphasise Christmas

Nearer the time, greet people with "Happy Christmas", never Seasons Greetings or any other old PC tosh.

Any shop or organisation that is avoiding the mention of Christmas, tell'em just what you think about it!

After all, its a main Public Holiday in India, and guess what they call it?

Do the Goan communities shy away from celebrating their Christian festivals for fear of offending the other faiths that live alongside them. NO!!! Maybe for once we can learn something from them

they tried something equally stupid here in toronto a couple of years and wanted to start referring to Christmas Tree as 'Holiday' Tree - which they did for a while before reverting back to the original name having realized that political correctness had been taken too far. i think the fact that Hanukkah (Jewish festival) being at around the same time had something to do with this . anyway - we had our first snowfall of the season today - no snow in november this year

Re: GOA - Buyer Beware!

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Originally Posted by johnny five
Yes, this is an outdated view, it was like it once but certainly not now! It took a slagging off on Holiday Troofs this week too.
In terms of current accuracy its a bit like advising people not to walk through London in case someone empties a chamber pot from an upstairs window!

Hear hear J5. I spent many happy holidays in Benidorm with my late husband from th 70's until a few years ago. It has developed into a beautiful place. Goa can never aspire to doing the same as the mentality is just not there




Well I would love Goa to be a bit like Benidorm, at least they have pavements to walk on, if a tiny bit of pavement is placed here, they park their bikes on it.
Don't they understand that you can't look in shop windows whilst negotiating taxi's, bikes, cows and shit. Would not like the 'Yob culture' at least we are usually spared that here.

I have never been to Benidorm so could not comment but I did think that some of the yob culture had arrived in our normally quiet (even when very busy resort) when a group of youngsters arrived, brought their music to play by the pool were loud, useing bad language and drinking doubles like they were going out of fashion. The turned out to be a group of holiday reps that were on holiday themselves. Luckily they were reasonable and turned the volume to an acceptable level when asked, stopped the bad language when it was pointed out to them that there were young children around and have been reasonably quiet or out for the rest of their holiday. I love to see people enjoying themselves, it just should not be at the expence of the enjoyment of other people.

I don't mind the cows.......after all its India!!!
Even the bikes and lack of paths i can put up with but i must admit the over excess of taxi drivers drives me mad!!!

Still wouldn't want Goa to become Benidorm though!!! and i have nothing personally against Benidorm except way too many high rise buildings for my liking.