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It is understandable why Norman Douglas was fascinated by old Goa, with its colourful background, its quaint eighteenth-century half-European, half-Hindu appearance, its Portuguese baroque churches and tropical gay bazaars, its spicy food and luxuriant flowers. But that was half a hundred years ago. The Goa of today must surely have noticeably changed atmosphere and appearance--if reports be true. Moreover, Douglas saw it only as a young visitor out to enjoy the new and different: he did not have to live there permanently.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 113