this is in continuation to the post of marriage and its learning....... apart from learning all those wonderful things that are mentioned in the below post, we have been travelling a lot as well... i dont think anyone with a stable working job would have been able to travel as much as me....
Places travelled...
February
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1. We kicked started our marriage with travelling to the holy land - Nanjungud near mysore was our first stop... we stayed three days there to seek the God's blessings to keep our marriage solid as a rock...
2. Masinagudi - This was our mini HM ..... we stayed at this fabulous place called "The Wild at Northen Bay" in Masinagudi which was essentially a big bungalow converted a get away resort... this place just houses 6 rooms with a tree house as well.... we stayed in a tree house !!!
3. Tirupathi - there is a saying down south - " No marriage is ever complete, without the couple seeking the blessing of Lord Venkteshwara at Tirupathi "... so we were off to fulifill the saying and also go for a cousin's son hair removing ceremony.... More than the visit, i enjoyed the drive back from tirupathi where i was dragging with a Sumo at 160 KMPH...... thats another story anyways
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April
4. Our officail HM - Maldives - Paradise Island is easily one of the most fabulous resorts that i have ever been to... with cottages next to the water and water bungalows it was truly an amazing place to enjoy and spend some quality time with your loved one....
5. Pune and Mumbai - went back to mumbai for official work.... Godrej sent me to check out Old Age Homes and Serviced apartments in that area... Celebrated holi as well went one of the best Lounge bars in india - "Hawian Shack" - its actually listed in the top 50 lounge bars in the world !!!!
6. Pollachi - a small town near coimbatore is where my mom is from.... we had gone to visit my grand parents as well as my uncle and aunt... it is always nice to go there... it always gives me a warm feeling of meeting my grandparents and spend some time with them ......
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MAY
7. Mumbai - Back to college for my presentations -- a joke where people actually thought that i had worked a lot during my winter project-- i guess the above now would have clearly told you on how much i had actually worked.... but it was nice to spend time with guys, i still remember the time when "MAARO GROUP" got drunk in U turn and ran a bill of 10k for kust booze....
8. Pondicherry - Went down south to visit my cousins wedding... spent a couple of days there..... saw auroville and just enjoyed the whole trip with family...
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JUNE
Nothing much happend in June... i joined Cypress in June and was just chilling the first month in training and all....
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JULY
9. Macau - We were off to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my in laws in Hong Kong and Macau.... We stayed at an amazing place in Macau called Venetian which had a golf course of the 5 th floor..... Now you can imagine how big it was... we did the worlds highest bunjee jump from the Macau tower, cost me a bomb :( 7k per person... but the experience was easily worth it....
10. Hong Kong - we spent a couple of days in Macau and were back in HK for nights stay at Disney.... since i had never been to disney before i was easily fasinated there... it was a great expereience tough i am sure i would enjoyed it a lot more if i had been there 10 years ago...
We then moved to main HK where we stayed at Intercontinental Grand, the shopping in Ladies market was quite an experience, it was in this trip that most of my training happed listed in the post below :)
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AUGUST
nothing much happend in august as well, most of the time was spent in preparing for the trip to Belgium ...
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SEPTEMBER
11- 26. EUROPE : The trip was eseentially for me to get "trained" in my head office in Belgium located in a small town called Mechelen... What it turned out was to be one hell of an experience of europe, the european way - Backpacking...
Some of the places visited : The whole of Netherlands, Belgium ( Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Han, Luxemborg), Italy( Rome, Pisa and Venice) and Paris....
The trip actually consisted of us going to a total of 16 places which included a number of small places like Waterloo etc....
To explain more about the trip, i guess i would need to write another psot long enough as this...
All i would like to say is that we spent nearly 35 days in europe, exploring as much as possible... i dont think i would be able to forget the time we spent there....My sincere advice for anyone going to europe, please go backpacking without agendas :)
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OCTOBER
27 - 30. I landed in India on October 10th and cypress shut down for diwali from Oct 27th to November 4th ... I took this time to go to delhi .... Stayed a couple of days in delhi and went to Pilani in Rajsthan to meet my brother in law... came back to delhi and was off to Rishikesh to do white water rafting... White water rafting in the ganges was easily one off the most amazing things i have done... truly amazing experience on the ganges.... It is said that the white water rafting on the ganges is supposedly the best in the world...
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NOVEMBER
31. Pollachi - back to pollachi to see my uncles kid... visited pollachi and coimbatore and spent time there....
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DECEMBER
32-33. Masinagudi and Ooty - Cypress gave me winter holidays this time which i used to the full extent... I had two family trips this time, one was to Masinagudi and ooty and the other was to tirchundhur and kanyakumari
the ooty trip was just fabulous... i was back at masinagudi for the river side lunches, the night safari etc and then to ooty to just chill by the fire place and go to the amazing botanical gardens....
34-37 . This was a trip with my folks, my sister and bro in law and their kids... all 8 of us left for a piligrammage tour to the holy land of madurai, tirchudur and kanyakumari...
we started our journey to madurai where we vistied the madurai meenaxi temple and then went to tirchundur and then to kanyakumari and then back to bangalore....
The intense heat in kanyakumari made me fall ill :(
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January
38,39 . two short trips to Mysore and Pollachi back....
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FEBRUARY
40. Chikamangalur - We were off to clebrate our first year anniversary to Chikamagalur....... we stayed at an amazing 7 star resort called "The Serai".....each of the rooms had its own private pool or jacuzzi..... truly an amazing place for a getaway for couples :)
41. Delhi - back to delhi for nikhil wedding ..... last minute decision and i was off to have a great time at nikhil wedding.....Nikhil finally tied the knot :P .... it was good fun pulling his leg in his wedding ...... it was nice to meet friends and spend some quality time with them
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There were other places that the misses has visited without me being Srinagar, Hyderabad etc..... I had initally counted a list of 46 places but seems to have forgotten 5 of them :) ..... will update the post once i remember them.....
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The journey continues
There are already plans in palce for going to Gokarna and Calcutta..... in the next few weeks.......
Like my friend puts it, We seem to be living the lives of gypsies :)
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