Thoughts simmering in my mind, just waiting to get out
My wife had heard about some temple near Channapatna on Mysore Road and we had been planning to go there since sometime. Today was finally that day and we decided to drive down. I had got my car from its 1st service yesterday and it was all set and dying to be taken out for [...]
Dhanushkodi was a small town on the southern tip of the Rameshwaram island. It was a populated town with temples, churches, markets, hospitals, and even its own railway station. Until that fateful day in 1964 after which it ceased to exist.
Remains of what was once a Church. ©Prashanth K S
It was the last day of the 3 day trip and there was less than 2 hours for us to catch our bus back to Bangalore. My friend and I wanted to visit the Saibeen(pardon my spelling) Complex and then the Bharath Mall before we headed to the bus stop.
There is a straight road between [...]
Going to Mangalore over the weekend. Leaving tomorrow night and getting back on Tuesday morning. A friend and colleague is getting married there on Sunday. Not in Mangalore, but in Kundapur actually. We got tickets only until Mangalore, so we get down there and then take a local bus to Kundapur. We dont have accomadation too, [...]
I’ve been wanting to start a travelogue since quite some time. I wanted to put it up on my LJ since long, but never really got the mood to do it.
Recently I read a travelogue of my SIL(sis-in-law) and was pretty impressed with the pages of logs that she had typed out. Even my wifey has up-to-date travelogues of her Germany and China trips. Being inspired by these two, I think I should actually records my travel experiences before I forget any interesting detail.
Continued from here.
The plane touches down in Germany. The left wheel lands and then the right and then the plane wobbles a little bit before finally slowing down to a halt. An announcement is made that the arrival terminal has been changed and that we will now disembark at gate B42. Now the Frankfurt airport [...]
The title doesnt really reflect what I want to say, but then things will slowly become obvious once you read through what I have to say. This was short trip to Germany but one that was not definitely sweet. I was a witness to lots of niggling little issues during this trip that I wouldnt [...]
One of the interesting things that you can do after you return from a ‘developed’/'western’ country is to drive on Indian roads and in Indian traffic. I did that and believe me it was a gruelling 1.5 hours each way.
To the credit of India, there are some interesting thoughts that came up when I was [...]
On April 21st Vidhya and I joined her parents and her sister on a trip to Melukote. Melukote is a temple on the top of a hill that is around 30kms from Mandya town. Its an Iyengar temple that is dedicated to Lord Vishnu in one of his avatars.
The Melukote Temple
Now at the foothills [...]
I had been on a 2 day camping trip to Honnemaradu (Near Shimoga, Karnataka) last weekend with my wife and office colleagues. I initially thought it wont be a good birding spot but turns out I was wrong as I would be detailing below. Kindly excuse the vague bird names and descriptions. I had [...]