Finally i had it

Last week,Thursday morning, my discolored mobile buzzed.Voice on the other end of my mobile mouthed into my ear piece that we were going for a holiday, and by the evening were were on our way, hurriedly parked ourselves in the train. This is how our(3 friends) cruise to Bangalore got switched on ...I loved it all, right from the kickoff.Messy plan for a holiday. Flashing start to the train..Heated spat with a night duty guard in there for a birth...


Early Friday morning, three of we, staring through the window,at the beautiful Bangalore weather, waiting to get off the train. We were picked up by a friend and he drove us up to his place. All the morning we've killed time just by lazing around, tidied ourselves up. Went for a little stroll, just to get a feel of the place around and for breakfast.We waited for a friend from Surat to join us. Almost around in the afternoon we've set ourselves up to go to ooty.It struck us as a fine place to go in early summer. We had real fun all the way, went past Mysore,Streamed through Bandipur national forest. As we drove closer to ooty, roads got narrowed, valleys went deeper down,the air got chilled and we went on.

Friday midnight,around twelve thirty, finally we've reached the hill-station.It was virtually cloud nine(read it cloud 8000 feet). Couldn't find a room not even in a single hotel.All of ooty was swarming with crowd and was jam-packed.Obviously.What is it, its early summer now. Yep, it was unplanned, and so we didn't had the luxury to book in advance.Everyone of us were running and panting around, trying to find a room in a hotel or a motel or a cottage.Or someplace else.The reception guy at one of the hotels' told us we were very lucky, and said we've got a 'cottage'.And we were jumping at it. We got to knew the actual thing when we've been to the 'cottage'.Its actually a tiny, untidy room built on top of a small house with a cramped washroom in it.We had no choices to make. Had to slip into that room. And the icing(read it as 'burning') on the cake was, he charged us 3000 bucks, which was thrice a 3star hotel price. But we had no regrets.

Beautiful Saturday early dawn. Had a reasonable nap for five hours. Woke up early, around five.But i had to say, we had a very neat view of the hill station from our place. Until what started in a crowded Hyderabad railway station, with an untidy plan for a holiday, has arrived at 8000 feet above sea level. It was freezing cold in the morning.Felt awesome.We were enjoying the feel of it.Standing at a peak of 8000 feet from sea level,clouds below us, with wonderful cool breeze near us,staring at the beautiful step cultivation of tea plants, felt like heaven.So we've started off to drift around. I had been to ooty once before, may be 5 years back. I had that,what they call the sort of a faint trail of memories going in my head. So we had an idea where to go(with me kind of a lead guy :)).Went along to visit some of the places around 25 KM radius, stopping in between for having the delicious tea. So the whole day we've wandered and drifted around, with the cool air throughout the day, got a feel of it and by evening we were back in our 'cottage'.I felt, places like Coonoor, Pykara which are perhaps 15-20 km away from ooty were better than the place itself. I felt the whole of the ooty is getting commercialized with hotels, cheap stores stuffed and crammed in. We were exhausted and have refreshed ourselves and headed for local shopping. Bought some homemade chocolates, purchased some novels in low-cost book stores, had dinner and went back to early sleep.

Sunday early on, around 3AM, we've started back to Bangalore and we were there by 11 AM. We were back in the room and relaxed for a while and in the evening went for a stroll through the city streets. It was an awesome stroll. It felt very good inside, walking along the trees strewn sidewalks, buying some cheap clothes on the footpath stores, making eye contact with some achingly cute girls. We've spent around 2 hours. Time to switch off was nearing by. We've got back to room and got our stuff packed up and waited for the Bus back to Hyderabad. The bus jerked to a halt and as i gazed outside, we were already back to the hustle and bustle of the pearl city.Finally i had it.A nice little break.