Drive to Pondicherry

The 24th, 25th and 26th was long weekend, was wondering where to spend the long weekend. one of my colleuge suggested why not drive to pondicherry(a.k.a puducherry). Pondicherry is a former french colony.
It was decided we will be heading to pondicherry on 24th and back to bangalore on 25th. 26th we will get all day rest before heading to office.

the route we planned was Bangalore –> Hosur –> Thirnalvelli –> Pondicherry. total drive was oneway was 290 Km.

on 24th morning five of us left in esteem on hosur road early 7:30 am. we were not expecting any traffic on the road so early. the drive till a village chandapura was amazing without any hick ups. as we reached towards karnataka border, attibelle traffic started to pile up. traffic was due early entry of trucks into the city, and due to the construction of flyovers the roads were bad: causing pile up. after dealing with heavy traffic we drove around 80 Km from Bangalore on the splendid highway. we saw A2B, had breakfast there. relished pongals and idli’s each one us had a three course breakfast.

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Hosur Highway

we reached pondicherry around 2:00 pm, first thing we looked for was for a hotel. Damn, every hotel in the city was booked. Luck was with us, we found a hotel in anna salai road. They had last two rooms with them.we booked both of them.

on the evening we left towards the sea shore. spent time there gazing at the pristine blue waters of bay of bengal. had some road side chats. the evening was amazing. we left that place around dinner time.

Pristine blue waters of bay of bengal

Mahatma gandhi statue on the east cost

Then French Martyrs

For dinner we decided to have French cuisine. we asked people around for a good French restaurant, someone suggested ‘Rendezvous’. when we reached there, man it was already packed and none of the tables were free. There goes our desire to have a French dinner ‘kaboom’. went back to the hotel and ordered food and booze from their menu.

Shri Aurobindo ashram

all of us woke up in the morning and packed our bags to leave for Bangalore. before leaving we took a visit to shri aurbindo ashram. still all five of us had a desire to have French breakfast some where at the back of the mind, again we gave a try at the ‘Rendezvous’ for a French breakfast. yesss we got the tables. ordered some French breakfast with some wine to accompany.

Hotel Rendezvous:rooftop hotel

Hotel Rendezvous:Guest Book

Hotel Rendezvous:Bar N Lounge

Hotel Rendezvous:Party Hall

Breakfast was over and next stop was Bangalore. we drove back to Bangalore by 3.00pm.

it was a refreshing 2 day break from the routine.

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