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Folks,
About six years ago when Aires Rodrigues was in London, he mounted a campaign protesting about the ban of Indian nationals travelling by the charter services to Goa. India was the only country in the world to impose such a ban and it was shameful to accord its own citizens second-class status. He failed to get any support from Goans holding Indian passports though hordes of them contacted him privately enquiring about the progress of the campaign. Aires was in frequent communication with Delhi and they made a lot of promises at the time. Perhaps we are witnessing the fruits of his endeavours.
The UK winters have become quite mild and we have not had any rain for two weeks now. Christmas is an enchanting period to be in the UK. I know of several families who have one generation based in Goa and family reunions are being arranged over Xmas in London this time.
As far as traffic goes, Goa is a right picnic! People in Goa complain if they are unable to find a parking space within five yards of their destination.
There have been a number of negative reports abut the new Excel UK-Goa charter service. Check out the 17 Nov. daily newsletter at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/ We booked for the Excel One upgrade but it seems that it is arbitrarily suspended.
Any news about a NRI Goa Facilitation Centre meet? There was one announced for Delhi last month but did it materialise?
Cheers,
Eddie Fernandes
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For those who were interested, the 'return charter' flights (Goa-UK-Goa) are now open to Indian nationals too and some seems were available a day ago, albeit for the most inconvenient season for the year ;-)
I was told a return ticket (Dec 17 to Jan 2) is available for around Rs 17,000 here. Anyone willing to trade sunny Goa for a wet London? Actually, the traffic congestion might be better there ;-) What say Eddie? FN
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