Charter flights to Goa

As per Findoll: There are almost 600 charter flights this season scheduled from 10 different countries:

Country Number of flights Country Number of flights London (Gatwick), U.K. 182 Moscow, Russia 124 Manchester, U.K 77 Frankfurt, Germany 53 Amsterdam, Holland 48 Brussels, Belgium 26 Zurich, Switzerland 26 Helsinki, Finland 21 Arlenda, Sweden 11 Copenhagen, Denmark 11 Singapore 06 Munich, Germany 02 Dusseldorf, Germany 02

Quite amazing! However, considering the large number of Israelis in Goa, I am surprised there are no direct flights from there.

Ten Most Popular Holiday Spirit Quotes
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TORONTO, Dec. 16 /CNW/ -
1. "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall." -- Larry Wilde
2. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
3. "Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live." -- Dennis Miller
4. "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." -- Dave Barry
5. "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." -- Clement Moore
6. "I wish we could put some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." -- Harlan Miller
7. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." -- Oprah Winfrey
8. "There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -- Edith Wharton
9. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." -- Henny Youngman
10. "I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish." -- Andy Rooney
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New Product Turns Ordinary Pictures Into Fabulous Gifts
VANCOUVER, Dec. 16 /CNW/ - You can put them in albums and you can put them in frames. But have you ever thought of putting your pictures on marble coasters or even candles? Let's face it; the most meaningful gifts are the ones you make - gifts from the heart. Tilano Fresco(TM) image transfer kits, a new line of products available, encourage you to create these meaningful memories in a very unique way.
"People are taking their favorite family photos, adding words and then transforming them into these fabulous marble coasters and fresco tiles" says Randy Orr, founding partner and Tilemaster at Tilano Decorative Product Inc. (TDPI) - makers of the Tilano Fresco image transfer kits.
The kits come with everything you need, but you will need to make a trip to your local copy center to get your pictures laser copied onto the special Tilano transfer paper included inside.
If you're feeling lazy, you can simply wrap up the kit and let your favorite person make their own tiles or do them together. Either way it's going to be a great gift. "The Tilano Fresco Kits are our hottest sellers this Christmas - our customers love them" says Matthew McBride, owner of Green Earth Stores (www.greenearthstores.com) in South Western Ontario.
For more ideas of the possibilities or to find a retailer near you, visit the company's web site at www.TilanoFresco.com.
Background
Tilano Fresco is the amazing image transfer process you do at home - no special tools required. TDPI is the manufacturer and global distributor of three do-it-yourself image transfer kits; the Decorative Tile Making Kit, the Decorative Marble Coaster Kit, and the Image Transfer Kit.
Tilano Fresco is the combined effort of three Canadian entrepreneurs: Randy Orr, decorative artist and Tilemaster; Charles Brodeur, operations specialist; and Dann Ilicic, branding and packaging expert.

Beach sharks invade virgin territory -- Galgibaga beach
My Village, My people
Picture a small paradise. Calm, serene with an empty beach lined by casuarinas trees, two parallel rivers, a patch of lush green fields and two communities living in perfect harmony. That is Galgibaga in Canacona, South Goa, a secret enclave sandwiched between the Arabian Sea and a tiny hillock. Passed over completely by the sands of time, Galgibaga beach is ideally a poet's delight and a Philosopher's retreat for its mystical and meditative ambience. It offers a breath of fresh air to city-weary souls in the warm embrace of nature. "It's a paradise," says Orest Kap, a German painter "It's something to be felt and experienced. It is an individual experience, to verbalize it is to limit it."
If you come to our village you won't have the heart to leave it if only you see the wonderful estuary and hear the endless vast ocean making amazing music of love for the villagers and at times beating drums of war in all its ferocity for anybody who dares to violate it.
If you come to our village you won't have the heart to leave it if only you see the lovely cottages of fine architecture resting amidst slender coconut trees and palms that sway gently to an unknown rhythm.
If you come to our village you won't have the heart to leave it if only you lie a while on the soft bed of pines of the Casuarinas (trees) that dot the Galgibaga coast.
If you come to our village you won't have the heart to leave it if only you venture into the river on a fine moonlit evening with a bottle of feni or urak on a tiny canoe for that mysterious over-the-moon feeling.
If you come to our village you will not have the heart to leave without a glimpse of an Olive Ridley turtle crawling majestically on the singing sands of Galgibaga.
If you come to our village you will not have the heart to leave it if only you meet its people. Their warmth, hospitality and charm will wrap you in a spell that is hard to break. And their courage is legendary. When a Chinese ship wrecked on the shores of Galgibaga with a thunderous bang in the wee hours of a day in June 1960 the daring villagers unmindful of the monsoon fury of the waves ventured into the sea and managed to rescue some of the crew. The wreck, seen better during low tide, bears testimony to that heroic moment.
If you come to our village you will not have the heart to leave only if you come. But don't forget Galgibaga is like a lovely rose hence there are bound to be some thorns around. And the rose would not be half as beautiful as it is without the thorns. Can the day have any meaning without the night?
Don't be shocked when you hear Ladrus and Pedrus exchanging choice obscenities at dawn. For at sunset you'll be as surprised to see them coolly sipping feni together in a pub. Just like the best pals in the world. Obscenities are as much a part of Galgibaga as are the gentle roaring beats of the ocean and the singing sands.
And there are a few Jakis and Jakins who have the perennial habit of talking about others. Who is with whom and whose wife has plans to elope with whose husband and so on. And there is Tom who feels that he is the President of the States because his neighbour thinks that he is the Prime Minister of India. All the same it adds to the spice.
And yet not all is well with this paradise. If you come to our village you would not have the heart to leave it without a tinge of sorrow pulling at your heart when you look at the small hillock just behind St Anthony's High School. A hillock that had remained a witness to all generations. It had stood there for hundreds and hundreds of summers and nobody could doubt that it would always be there from now to eternity. But today there is very little left of the hillock. The serpentine Konkan Railway has almost eaten it up. The hillock lies bleeding and torn into
shreds. With an amputed look it feels naked, stripped of its grandeur and beauty.
Galgibaga now has the brow of many an eco-conservationist and others clouding with worry as
the virgin territory, Galgibaga beach is invaded by beach sharks (Shacks). This, despite the fact that the beach is a protected area for turtle nesting and sees the hatching of over 3000 eggs every year.
A villager expressing his apprehension says, beach shacks can only make our beloved Galgibaga another haven of sun, sand, wine, women and sex for the hippies who have nothing to offer us except drugs, nudism, a philosophy of free-love, sex and AIDS. Beach shacks or no shacks the rape of this unspoilt child of Mother Nature is imminent.
If you treasure any fantasies of visiting this shadow land of dreams, pack you bags and get going today. Tomorrow this wonderful place may well go into the oblivion of history as another paradise lost.