31st May 2010, 17:45
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If everything goes well I'll not diasppoint you guys in 2010. I know you are already liking that idea.  | |
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28th July 2010, 10:01
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| Senior - BHPian  | Hi Lalu, How could have I missed this thread? Sorry for a very very late reply.I was searching for an old travelogue using my handle as keyword and landed on this since you mentioned in the first post. So you gave your Civvy a fresh breath. Nice snaps again like any of your travelogues. Shocked to see you plucking oranges from road side trees (insulting your orange tree). Also you look nice in mundu (south indian dhoti) and look perfect Kanjirappally Achayan visiting pondy to fill his bar stock .BTW have a look on our Rambuttan tree with fruits though not ripe. Last edited by jacs : 28th July 2010 at 10:08. |
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28th July 2010, 19:21
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Hi jacs, that was in 2008 before I planted my Orange tree About the achayan part  Rambutan - Amazing. I need to come there soon. | |
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10th April 2011, 13:46
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10th April 2011, 14:19
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud We started at 05:30AM in the morning. The moment we started rolling I could hear a sigh of relief from the family, Yes we are back at what we love most. Driving out. Prior to the last six months, our life kind of evolved around our holidays. And we were getting the days back. The feeling was intense. We broke our journey at A2B for breakfast by 06:30AM. Since it was early the crowd was not much.  We had a peaceful breakfast and started our journey again by 07:00AM. We reached the ghat roads to Yercaud by 08:30AM.  We stopped a little ahead after paying the entry toll.    Summer seems to have taken a toll. At the beginning of the ghats the trees were all dry, and gave us a very baren stare.     The greens were missing, but the eager growth of life is seen aloud in the little greens that are left on the trees.   That gave us hope. HOPE is a very serious feeling, without which our lifes would have been so lost. And trust me, HOPE and DREAMS keep us going forward. It had always, and it will indeed be so in future. We moved on and stopped near a view point.     With eagerness and hope we moved ahead.  continued... |
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10th April 2011, 14:33
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud We drove on through the beautiful roads. Greenery started to appear. It was a great relief to our sore eyes.  We stopped at the 17th hairpin  We had a stroll there  Jr. PPG decides to chaeck around  Sr. PPG with the civvy  The winding roads  We finally reached Yercaud by 10:00AM  continued.. |
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10th April 2011, 15:00
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud We went directly to Bhavani Singhs Perfumery to replenish our stocks. The products are really good, it had worked for us.  Wifey ordering the stocks  Some information  From here the Ladies Seat, Gents Seat, Childs Seat and Rose Garden are very near. Drove on to the Child's Seat, giving a skip to Ladies and Gents seat as it was noon, and sun was bright. Child's Seat is inside the Rose Garden. Views from Child's Seat            We walked toward the garden   continued... Last edited by laluks : 10th April 2011 at 15:03. |
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10th April 2011, 15:11
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10th April 2011, 15:15
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But I found only one Bhavani singh outlet, this guy has his perfume shop on the roadside and his plant collections behind it. Also his factory can be visited on prior appointment. This time and also in 2008 I visited his place. The other one I have not come across. I tend to believe this guy is the real one  | |
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10th April 2011, 15:33
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud We saw a tree devoid of its leaves  We wanted our pictures with the tree   The Guava garden    Wifey loves the cool place  Some wild flowers  Following the footsteps of my PPGs  The childs seat seen from the park  A father daughter moment  There was a lot of construction activity inside the park. This prevented us from spending more time in the cool shades of the park. We drove back to Yercaud town by 11:30AM continued... |
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10th April 2011, 15:47
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud We drove toward Yercaud Town. On the way we found this old mansion   We reached Montfort School circle   The pond near the school  We finally reached our resort - The Lake Forest Hotel, an associate Club Mahindra Resort. It was 12:00PM We got our room  Some warning  Me looking out of the room to the greenery around  Had lunch and relaxed in the room for a while. continued... |
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10th April 2011, 16:02
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud After relaxing for a while, we wanted some tea very badly. Decided to go to the restaurant taking a stroll through the resort.     A beautiful flower   We did not see a single soul anywhere in the resort. When we reached the restaurant we realised it was the Cricket World Cup final. We are no great Cricket fans, probably the last matches I followed would have been the ones when Kapil, Srinath and Shastry were playing. Nowadays I feel its not just cricket that happens in all the matches. Looked at the big screen for a while  After tea, we retired back to our room  continued... |
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10th April 2011, 16:18
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud By 21:00PM we went to the restaurant for dinner. The entire crowd were in front of the big screen watching the finals.  Found a table and ordered dinner. We too joined the frenzy of watching the finals. People were shouting, praying, screaming - what not. For now, I decided to join in the fun. The discussions just before the winning runs were scored  Dhoni waiting for the delivery  That's it! India wins the finals    The crowd is happy too and tries to settle down with the food.  I loved the statements from Dhoni  The esctatic team with the cup  We are the Champions  Celebrations  We too had some crackers at the resort, the high decibel stuffs. continued... Last edited by laluks : 10th April 2011 at 16:21. |
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10th April 2011, 16:26
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 01, 02.04.2011 Yercaud It was almost 23:30PM by the time the match was over. We took some night pictures of the reception.    We finally retired to the room by midnight. The food at Lake Forest Hotel had considerably worsened compared to our previous visit in 2008. The staff also has become very lethargic. |
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10th April 2011, 17:02
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| Re: Civved : Yercaud Day 02, 03.04.2011 Yercaud Woke up around 09:00AM after a good nights sleep. We decided to skip the restaurant of the resort for breakfast as we were not quite happy with the food. Me and Sr. PPG at the parking lot  The ramp to the gate  Putting a word with the security to keep a parking place for me on return  PPGs Checking the Fig Tree   The Fig   Sr. PPG checking out the swans   Who is this fellow?  Dosas at Shevaroys tasted very nice. But very pricey at Rs50 for one  We had our brunch till 11:30AM. continued... |
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