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 relationship with the city (more on that in the next post and yes that will be the post for u Pal :p) but somehow it just kept getting delayed and delayed and further delayed because we’ll think of doing in it winters and something will come up and later in march we would say naa its too hot now so this time we decided enough is enough we must go this time whatever happens we must. So phone calls were made to cousins and uncles, to some friends and off we started early morning a little after 6:15 or so, all backs packed and loaded, ojas buckled into the car seat, the windscreen cleaned and shining, juices and munchies loaded off we started with a lovely weather accompanying us, we secretly praying that we could pack the weather in the boot and take it along too 🙂
The idea was to zip across and cross hosur before 7am at any cost however God and my husband had different plans, as soon as we reached the toll booth N realized that he has left his wallet home, we pay a round trip toll and take a u-turn and thak go back home to collect the said wallet, poor N to his credit he has never done it before and on the way tried to drive as fast as possible to save time. Anyways by the time we started from home again it was some 7:10 and the trip-o-meter was set back to 0, we reached the poll gate and paid it one more time and headed again. The drive till hosur was pretty crowded and it felt that whole of Bangalore is headed that side for the long weekend… we reached Hosur (38kms) at 7:46, thought of catching a breakfast but somehow didn’t feel like stopping so close to home 😛 the hosur-krishangiri stretch is a pretty decent one, The roads are good but there is quite a bit of traffic and we made it to Krishangiri (87 kms) at about 9 am in the morning. And just after krishanagiri we decided to fuel up as well as catch up on breakfast, there was a MacDonald and Krishna bhawan at the bunk but guess what the krishna bhawan had some 25 minutes waiting and had run out of idlies, this on the highway so Bangalore was indeed headed out, we decided to grab something from the drive in of macD and eat on the go, though the drive in was not really working well instead of three counters for ordering, paying and collecting there was one window where he was making everyone halt and place the order in the main counter inside… what will it take for us to do things right? small things like that? so the new spicy chicken and spicy paneer burgers were sampled and duly passed as better than the earlier ones 🙂 and post krishangiri we took a left turn towards Chennai whereas the straight goes towards Salem etc
And this is when we found joy because the roads were relatively very empty post this turn and very very good, I think only fools like us holiday in Chennai that too in the end of April 😉 We started zipping away happily cruising at good speeds, reached yellore (160kms) at 9:51, vellore (206) at 10:21 and finally chennai outskirts (322 kms) at 11:50 and that is where it started damn the traffic jam…. from there to reach our cousin’s house we took about 1 hr and 2 mins for a distance of about 15kms … sigh traffic everywhere is the same I guess..
To be Continued in Part 2
1st
and as usual u vanish post claiming ur position whats with u these days?
Oyeee where? I comment on all posts hmmpf!
Oh we are gng on a drive to Gulbarga this Sunday for a friend’s wedding and am sooo waiting for it 🙂 Even the much-dreaded heat can’t hamper our spirits when it comes to travelling, no 😉
2nd! 😀
waiting for part 2… that stretch to Hosur and then to Krishnagiri is usually crowded but the road is lovely!! All that greenery! 😀
oh yes its lovely
I’m waiting for Part 2. Chennai is one city I have not been to yet and would love to read more about it.
sooon
Waiting for part 2 🙂 with bated breath, wondering if it will have brickbats or bouquets!!
both pal it will have both 😉
I kinda liked my trip to Chennai… not comparable with Bangalore… but another metro city with loads of trees is what hit me… ! The Rickshaw wala’s though were !!!!! to say the least !
uffff I dont even go near autwallahs in chennai one time I took in this trip uma till the bargaining and made me sit 😛
WOW!!Just reading it all,made me excited!!! Waiting eagerly for part 2 now!!
And paneer burger,really??
You know what’s my fav. desi Mac?chicken Mc.grill with the green chutney!!LOL! Feel free to go eww.. my sister does,everytime I order it!!LOL!
oh I like chicken mc grill too and cringe some more because I like mc aloo tikki even more 😛
waiting to read 2nd part. Chennai in april!!
in april?????????? didnt get it?
Oh dear….that damn traffic just makes me get on my nerves….its the same everywhere here….the roads were built long time back – so narrow and certainly not enuf for the growing no of cars….its a sad sight to get caught in traffic in any city….
Run out of idlies ???? Thats very very bad….I would’ve screamed if I had been really hungry….he he he…. 🙂
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