Winter of '74 in Goa

Did any one of you been to Goa in 1974? I was there for the whole winter & since the traveller population wasnt so large people knew each other over the area Baga, Anjuna, Vagator & Arambol. So if you had been there our paths must have crossed some where.

I was there from December to March mostly around Anjuna,
though I looked more like thishttp://www.indiamike.com/india/attac...7&d=1085157240 than my profile picture

seventies saw your pic my eyesights are not so good & your photo is not a close up & so many looked like you. I remember there was another guy from UK named Bob who had an American GF & a baby. There was this swiss couple having a volkswagen beetle & a dog called "Ganja" We drove to Arambol packed like a can of sardines in this car. I was mostly living with a group of French people.

Yes I must admit & we are going back into those hazy days from 30yrs back,,,,,,,,,,,,

Yeah its bit hazy now & were'nt our views about us & the world around us much clearer then?
Its more than a decade I have stoped going to Goa. I found that I cant handle Goa any more. Charter flights & all that plus the celebs moving to Goa have changed every thing. I cant & wont say good or bad but its a different place now. At Tito's people speak a language I dont understand, I have to watch out my towels & things when I go for a swim, ambling along the beach at night I am scared by violent groups of people & so on so I have said my Namaste to Goa. I have found some places in Karnataka, Orissa & Andhra pradesh where I still find tranquility.
Regards.

Hi jyotirmoy,

Your post brought back some memories.

I was in Goa some time after you (around 1980), but I knew a French man named Christoph. He had been in Goa quite a few years and sold beautiful Nepali jewellery at the market. Baga was his home (from my memory). He would travel to Nepal to have te rings and trinkets designed and made up. He had a limp. For a few months I worked with him on a boat in Mangalore Harbour; trying to convert a Fishing boat into a motorised schooner for tourists. It kind of worked. The last time I saw the boat, the St Cecile, was in the river at Panjim.

I stayed with a family in Candolim. A German man Dietmar and his Goan wife Veronica, and her siblings. They had engaged a Rajasthani artist to work on the renovations of an old villa. Does anyone know of the place? I will be in Goa in a few days and might try to see if I can find it.

Regards

Totally agree with whats happened & how it'schanged, It saddens me greatly,,,,,,,,,

But life goes on & we have to move on with it. I guess the people discovering goa today are looking for something different to what we found.

All this emphasis about finding a hotel, ha ha in those days if you were lucky you shared a room or house with a friend or two, or just borrowed their veranda now & again. People lived in small groups under favourite trees, getting water to wash from the well. Chai shops would even let you sleep on the benches as they knew it would guarantee a few customers first thing in the morning, and a few customers always attracted a few more which resulted in the daily cycle of chai & chillums from sun-uo till late into the evening,those chai shops seemed to be central to everything. Everyone had their favourite two or three which you rotated between,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Hi HelloSing!

This sounds like a guy who has a small restaurant in Lakeside, Pokhara, or at least did a couple of years ago. He's married to a local woman and has a family now. Name of Christoph, French and has a limp - it has got to be him!

We were. Don't think U would remimber me (I was...5!!!) but maybe we hang up in the same tribe? You can PM me if U want, I could send U some photos, just in case...