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Archive for the ‘Highway Travels – the mad couples travel tales’ Category

Early morning and drives

Generally speaking I am not a morning person at all. Actually I am a night owl. Give me night over morning any day. I can be up till very late in the night infact I can be up till morning but as me to get up early morning and you will have a very cranky [...]

Chennai Chronicles 5

Before I go to the next trip (yes Leh it is on Thursday) I thought I might finish the previous travelogue so that I can come back and start fresh, read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 before this if u want So after having a sumptuous and satisfying lunch at Temple Bay [...]

Chennai Chronicles 4

Read part 1, part 2 and part 3 So after the adventure at snake park we reached mahabs finally and the first thing that hit me was the heat damn inspite of the morning being so nice and it drizzling off and on it was really hot, sultry weather is the kind of weather I [...]

Chennai Chronicles 3

Continued from here and here So next morning alarms were set at 5am, bets in place that who will get up and who will not and the odds were highly against me but I was determined to prove them wrong and I think I got up just to prove them wrong So we were at [...]

Chennai Chronicles 2 | Post 20

Continued from here So after we reached to aunt’s place after battling with the Chennai traffic we indulged in some delicious home cooked lunch, I wish I had pictures to show you how yummy it was but really we were so hungry that we attacked the food without giving much thought to anything else… there [...]

Chennai Chronicles Part 1 | Post 12

We had been planning this Chennai trip forever and by forever I mean forever for multiple reasons N’s uncle who is almost like a father to him since N lived with him during all his schooling, wanting to show Ojas chennai, wanting to experience the brilliant chennai road in the Cedia and for my love-hate [...]

Highway and Rains

Are usually a good combination for me, I love the raindrops falling on the top of car playing a symphony… the wipers going swish swish… the nip in the air… water droplets falling and the car zooming again… sigh so romantic so poetic isn’t it? Till yesterday It started in the same poetic manner the three of [...]

@185kmph to Dharmapuri

Q: How does one create a magical saturday which is usually dedicated to domestic chores? A: Speed test the Cedia. The plan was to set out at 7am from Bangalore to Dharmapuri to experience speed in Mitsubishi Cedia. The 2+2 dual carriageway from Hosur tenders an irresistible temptation to floor the pedal. The clock chimed [...]

Tea Heaven Munnar : The journey from Bangalore

12noon – 11th june 2009 N Experienced a feeling of excitement for the ensuing maiden voyage to Munnar cocktailed with trepidation about successfully collecting and packing paraphernalia mostly called out by M, but alas a few of them are also imagined by M which N would get to know enroute when the item’s purpose is [...]

Truly Asia

We had gone to Malaysia in early Apr 2007 and somehow when I came back I couldnt write do a post on that as I concivied and then the bed rest and then the baby… life got busier and busier and busier… But in the last 2 months multiple friends have mentioned multiple times that [...]

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