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Goa Tips & reads
Posted by Lunaman on 9 April 2011 - 7:17pm.
To celebrate our 50th birthdays the FPO & myself are off to Goa next week. I'm after any tips on Candolim,Goa.
I'm also after a few books to read. I read 'Any Human Heart' and 'One Day' after recommendations from the massive which I loved. Ive looked at 'reads' on the site but I thought you may add a few further suggestions. I'm not after a review of any books just add a title/author and I'll look them up and hopefully find another few gems like last year.
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No idea on books
but this could be your soundtrack (or rather mine as I can't remember the last time I went on holiday)
Amancio D'Silva - Goan music from 1969
Might I recommend some music from Goa instead?
Amancio D'Silva was a brilliant Goan guitarist who came to London in 1967 and fell in with the cream of British jazz musicians. Ian Carr (trumpet) and Don Rendell (saxes) played on his debut album "Integration", and a very wonderful thing it was. Dive in
Of course
I shall check him out.
Got back from Goa 2 weeks ago
Myself & TLC absolutely adore the place. The people are so friendly.
The weather is baking hot, (use plenty of high protection ) & I thoroughly recomend swimming with elephants.
I am in the early stages of booking for next year, its a wonderful place & I am so envious of you !
Enjoy.
You've met the FPO then?
Sorry I jest. Thank god she doesn't read this blog or I wouldn't be making it!
Thanks for the tip.
Mick Jagger got married there, didn't he?
After a hearty breakfast of mock turtle broth and with some fifties throwback rock n' rollers as witnesses. Immortalised on the title track of the album Goa, Teds, Soup.
Goodness, is that the time..?
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Dear:)
Books
45 or 17, each by Bill Drummond.
Goa? I hated it there. Kerala was much nicer, but I'm sure it was my frame of mind than a fault of the locale.
Books
Wolf Hall is wonderful - an epic story of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII and all thinks tudor.
It's written in the present tense but as long as you remember that every He is pretty much Cromwell, you get into it quickly!
Alternatively, if you like science fiction then any of the early novels of Michael Marshall Smith if you don't know them - Spares, Only Forward and One Of Us are just great - flawed but likeable heroes trying to do the right thing in a world that is both icredibly familiar and alien at the same time. I adore his writing, he has a turn of phrase that reminds me of Chandler sometimes.
In fact, if you haven't read Chandler then I love The Long Goodbye...
Finally, Old Filth by Jane Gardam - if you liked Any Human Heart I think you'll like this. It's the story of a man, I don't want to give much away but it's just lovely...And there is a companion novel called The Man in the Wooden Hat.