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		<title>Live and cycle in Goa, India for six months?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, read all about it on this blog.

I wrote over 60 stories on living in Goa as a single woman of Goan descent for this Girl Gone Goa site.
Read the lively and informative stories in any order, or start at the beginning.
Scan the popular stories sidebar for stories such as Goa Cycle Club&#8217;s First Ride, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=464&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/live-cycle-in-goa/</link>
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		<title>How an average cyclist became an accidental activist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Published in the July/August 2009 issue of Momentum Magazine.]
Here in Vancouver, Canada, I consider myself just another person in the city who rides a bike. I keep a pretty low profile compared to the cycling artists and advocates I admire. But something radical happened when I bought an Atlas bicycle, rode it, and wrote about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=515&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/how-an-average-cyclist-became-an-accidental-activist/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye, Goa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tears and fears and no place called home 
I&#8217;m in the living room of Marie&#8217;s Defence Colony home. She&#8217;s seated regally – as always – in a divan. Her four-footed cane stands nearby, as do several of her staff. A stuffed toy tiger watches from a half wall behind her.
I&#8217;ve come to say goodbye to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=457&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/goodbye-goa/</link>
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		<title>Hostel Association tours Goa by bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I wrote this piece for the August 2009 issue of Goa Today Magazine. The magazine is distributed around the world and many subscribers are Goan expatriates. - UR]
A “Slow Goa” expedition for cyclists and activists
Visitors have toured Goa by car, motorbike, bus, boat and train; but now – thanks to the Goa Branch of Youth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=533&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/hostel-association-tours-goa-by-bicycle/</link>
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		<title>Cycle in Goa? Radical!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This story appeared as a feature in Herald  "Mirror" Sunday March 29, 2009. Herald is Goa, India's largest circulation English language daily newspaper - UR]
The best way to see Goa is from the seat of a bicycle

by Ulrike Bemvinda Rodrigues
“The young lady wishes to ride a cycle all around Goa,” Aloysius explained to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=448&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/cycle-in-goa-radical/</link>
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		<title>A Gun Search on Patnem Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short tale of guns and fetishes
Tiny Patnem beach is a curve of sand just south of Palolem Beach in south Goa. It is beautiful, intimate and moneyed in an unassuming way. Landscaped beach bungalows with au courant names like “Home” and “Cuba” provide bed linens and filter coffee to slim, healthy-looking visitors.
I am here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=444&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/a-gun-search-on-patnem-beach/</link>
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		<title>Sadho at Sunaparanta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sadho Poetry Film Festival at Goa&#8217;s new Arts Centre
Sadho is a voluntary organization that aims at taking great “poetry to people” from all walks of life through the use of arts, media and social action. I attended a Sadho film festival at Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts in Altinho and was quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=439&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/sadho-at-sunaparanta/</link>
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		<title>Youth travel free with &#8220;Know Goa Program&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Published in the March 2009 issue of Goa Today Magazine. The magazine is distributed around the world and many subscribers are Goan expatriates. The full-text story is below. - UR]
More than a holiday in the sun?
Ulrike Bemvinda Rodrigues wonders what&#8217;s behind a new NRI Affairs scheme for diaspora youth
Know Goa? No, I don&#8217;t. That&#8217;s why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=428&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/youth-travel-free-with-know-goa-program/</link>
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		<title>Cycling Pomburpa and Chorao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goa Cycle Club tours along and across the Mandovi River

For our third ride, myself, Alisha and Nikhil completed a 25 kilometre loop that included three ferry rides: Mandovi River ferry from Panjim jetty to Betim, then cycle east through the village of Britona.
We stopped to admire the Houses of Goa museum, then onwards to Pomburpa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=424&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/cycling-pomburpa-and-chorao/</link>
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		<title>Photos: Goa&#8217;s Working Bicycles</title>
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Ice Cream
Ice Cream bicycles find the tourists, but they also ply the slimmest village lanes &#8211; especially when school gets out.






Metal Cans

Using the empty space within the frame of a bike, a person can wheel 80 kg of flattened cans to a yard 8 km away &#8211; with a broken chain.






Rice Snacks

A Hercules loaded with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlgonegoa.wordpress.com&blog=5173568&post=414&subd=girlgonegoa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://girlgonegoa.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/goa-working-bicycles/</link>
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