Back 2 Life @ Namma BLR :)

Starting of this month, had to say goodbye to Sydney where I spent nearly 2 months in this visit and more than quarter of this year in the city! Saying bye was getting difficult as the departure date came closer but unfortunately had to...Wish I could have stayed till New Year day when Sydney would be the first city to Welcome 2010 with its amazing fireworks in Sydney Harbour Bridge and Darling Harbour areas! YouTube videos of this fireworks will leave you in awe and sydney government will be spending some millions of dollars for this amazing show!! Anyways, back to namma bengaluru life now...had been to office for a week post-return and then took off for couple of weeks (and this also is getting over :-(() On the first week of my leave, my parents and my wife and myself drove to some long-pending 'temple tour'...This was the route taken and places covered. Bangalore -> Kukke Subramanya (via Sakleshpur and Shiradi Ghat) -> Southadka Ganapathi -> Dharmasthala -> Kodyadaka Hosanadu Annapoorneshwari -> Udupi Sri Krishna -> Kumbashi Aanegudde Ganapathi -> Kollur Mookambika -> Bangalore (via Nittur, Hosanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur) All the above places were covered in 3 days time with 1 night stay in Kukke and Upupi. Roads are pretty good in the above route except the Shiradi ghat, which is a nightmare to drive...thanks to all the corrupt people involved who just consume money and do nothing good. Otherwise, Kukke to Dharmasthala route is very enjoyable where we need to pass thru forest area and Kollur to Shimoga to Bangalore where the roads are excellent! Wish Shimoga-Bangalore road is made 4-lane just like Bangalore-Mysore SH-17 so that travel time still gets reduced. In Bengaluru, visited the ongoing 35th Nilgiri's Annual Cake Show Fun to watch and excellent effort by the people who have prepared this gigantic Taj Mahal!! Kudos to other cakes too :-) But only the sad part is that all the prices have gone high, infact double of last year....You can feel the pinch right from the entry ticket price, which was Rs 20/- last year and this year, its Rs 40/-. Some of the eatables stalls outside the cake show possess the same trend. Rs 20/- for chat items (Rs 10/- last year), Rs 20/- for Delhi Mega size papad (last year Rs 10/-) and many more!!

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