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May 18, 2005
Intriguing experience
Meeting a fellow blogger is an experience by itself. This is the first time I am experiencing it. I have commented on his blog and he has commented on my blog. That’s all the connection is. I have noticed somewhere in his website that he lives near London. Once I landed in London, we exchanged some mails and got his address and the phone numbers. We spoke over the phone nearly for half an hour about various things, surprisingly nothing about blogging and decided to meet up at his place.
Chakra a.k.a. Chakrapani, lives in Bournemouth, a peaceful, beach side town in the south west of England. I decided to go by a coach (that was a different story) to Bournemouth on a Saturday morning and was planning to stay with Chakra for the weekend. It took about 2 and half hours to reach Bournemouth and I was there at Chakra’s place at around 12.45.
Unfortunately, Chakra’s wife wasn’t there with him as she had given birth to a baby boy and is in India. My hopes of having a south Indian lunch was dashed, but Chakra made it up for his wife absence. It was a wonderful south Indian meal and he indeed is a very good cook. I really cherished that lunch as it was almost 20 days since I had a good lunch.
We then decided to take a stroll around the place and went to beach first. It was actually very windy and was cold and walking on the beach didn’t help either. It was a nice little town with wonderful long beach, greens all around and serene.
There were few things which were very funny out there. The winch on the foothill was really funny. It will take you little less than 2 minutes to reach the top, still there were quite a few enthusiastic people going on that. And there was this train, the train which goes on the road and not on the track. This runs from one end to the other end of the beach. Probably we can introduce that in Marina and I am sure it will be a huge hit.
We also took a plunge into the casino and watched people play for most of the time. It was amazing that even a 2 year kid was gambling in the casino. We finally decided to throw some money into the casino (Ohh no, it’s really embarrassing to tell the amount) and try our luck. It was good initially, but eventually we lost all the money we played for.
Unfortunately, the Bournemouth Eye wasn’t in operation because of the windy conditions. However, I was told by Chakra that I am not missing anything.
It was a fun filled 6 hours on that day which I really enjoyed and more than that I could share my thoughts in our own tongue. I just can’t imagine this kind of a thing happening, visiting somebody whom you have no clue of? Infact, I and Chakra had lived in the same place in Madras, but has never met.
It was truly intriguing experience!!
Posted by Vasanth at May 18, 2005 05:37 PM
Comments
Visiting here after my trip to India... hope you are doing fine Vasanth. Nice recap of that day... It was pleasure meeting u.
> BTW, why do women go back home when they have a baby?
Manoj - they get to be near their mom, which is a source of comfort for them.
Posted by: Chakra Sampath at June 7, 2005 08:47 PM
cool. your exprience at bourmth is surely worth enough to cherish and remember. wishing you many more. may be sometime, if you visit the kingdom of saudi arabia, we could meet, but the `wonderful south indian meal' is not guaranteed.
Posted by: ven at May 18, 2005 10:51 PM
Not even a month since you went to London and already you seem to be missing home food LOL
BTW, why do women go back home when they have a baby?
Posted by: manoj at May 18, 2005 07:32 PM