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Memories that fill my heart with joy!

  Memories that always fill my heart with joy! Please watch out for regular updates! Every time we left the charm of Nairobi and headed for the escarpment (sometimes down into the Rift Valley itself) ... Naivasha, Gilgil, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Kericho and many, many more destinations, I always felt a special kind of exhilaration. Especially after stopping at the little Italian-built chapel. I learnt how to drive at night, thanks to Guy Spencer, a sports reporter on the East African Standard. He would let me drive his car after we had put our individual papers to bed. More often than not, the Wagon Wheel Hotel in Eldoret was our target. WW made some of the best breakfasts known to man. My favourite was their cold-pressed tongue. Heading further through Kakamega, Busia and on to Kisumu and Lake Victoria was always a blessing. Life for a little boy growing up in Nairobi was simple ... yet adventurous. Bike rides to Athi River, or the Ngong Hills, Ruaraka, Dundora, along Nairobi Ri...

Wedding anniversary! August 28

  Celia Mascarenhas! If I could play the guitar like you, this would be my dedication to you sweetheart!      https://youtu.be/qWsIohSVKvs? si=Nx3fzyGRbsglxV3P   I created a perpetual tribute on what would have been our 50 th  Wedding Anniversary.   I intend to keep it going in memory of you and because it helps others too , something you always did - helping everyone.   Also cause I want to always remember you, my love!!   Those who wish to add a word or two or whatever, it would be very much appreciated so that I can keep your memories too. Posted on     https://benjamin-mascarenhas. muchloved.com/  

JUST ONE MORE GLIMPSE AT YELLOW STAR

  Ladies, just one more look at my yellow gems! Just outside my  bedroom window, always the first to bud and first to bloom

How Goan hearts won gold in Toronto!

  How Goans won Gold in Toronto, in the hearts and minds of the packed crowd! And the gold goes to … VIVA GOA! By Norman da Costa Canada has been riding a golden wave at the Olympic Games in Paris. And on this side of the Atlantic GOA Toronto has run away with the gold medal with a magnificent celebration of the Viva Goa festival. While it took thousands of workers and more than four years of planning to stage the Olympics, the GOA with the unpaid help of a little more than 120 volunteers turned a dream into reality by staging the best-ever Viva Goa Festival at the Paramount Fine Food Centre in Mississauga. As thousands snaked their way through for MASS AT 10 AM, it felt like Canada’s entire Goan population of 50,000 (according to the Canada Census) had looped it into Paramount. Although no exact figures have been released it is estimated that attendance was anywhere between 7 000 and 10 000 and that is an astounding figure. You can’t blame anyone for the delay as the visio...

Memories in my Garden

    Memories  In my garden: