What happens when we are set to sail and suddenly one word pops out ” How ” .
Third and the last day of puri , Dolphin was in the bag now and backpack was getting more greedy , ready to move on. Konark temple was the next destination for my greedy backpack , he had got up early and had waited for that moment when he would be again on road.
Destiny had some other plans , he was enjoying the sun , had gone to swimming pool now body was all set for his next journey , but suddenly weather changed and ruined the whole mood.
Check out from The Hans Coco Palm and move to Konark temple and then straight to Bhubhaneshwar to spend a night there.
It drizzled a bit , mood was awesome till now its going to be cool breeze atlast and black and white pictures would come better of Konark temple it remains same. But ,
Where is the sun gone , clowds had become hungry and they had eaten him.
My greedy backpack never knew that he had unzip and unpack again , but it was on the cards. It started raining heavily a little after and whole plan went into backpack.
My greedy Backpack again into the room , let the things get better , lts enjoy the luxury of The Hans Coco Palm. What to do, It Rained and Ruined the plan.
Now would be heading towards Bhubhaneshwar directly.
Though it rained heavily , sea roared at its best my greedy backpack spent some hours in swimming pool again and in rain.
But still confused , did it ruined or gifted me a skywatch friday.
You might be thinking, what this guy is doing? At one place talking of Dolphin’s and then this trip revolves around India only. Well very less people know that India too is home for rare Dolphin’s thought not the one’s which were galloping in front of kate winslet and Leonardo De Caprio in Titanic Movie. Read More
It was the month of october when Phialin cyclone was going to arrive at Andhra pradesh and Odisha , every thing and every one was in a state of shock whats going to Happen ? But thanks to the Government authorities whose hard work and pre evacuation programme saved many a lives. I dedicate this blog of mine to all those who suffered and to the Government Authorities.
I was suppose to visit Puri in Odisha for a 3 day holiday with my wife in November , Thanks to The Hans Coco Palms. Things were bit different now , situations had changed and so was mood of my family thanks to Phialin. I had to enquire to The Hans Coco Palm staff about the situations there , and they told me it was all perfect now , Phialin was going to struck Gopalpur district and Puri is somewhere around 250 Km away from there , though it had given some heavy showers there but rest of all was perfectly fine.
Me and wife took an afternoon flight to Bhubhaneshwar , we reached there by 5.30pm in the evening , The Hans Coco Palms driver was waiting there for us with a placard in hand , though it has happened with me before also but this time it was very different , Now below my name My Greedy Backpack was added…. Wow…
We were going to travel some 2 hrs more on road to reach Puri from Bhubhaneshwar , day was becoming very tiring , thanks to the two and half hour flight.
Trust me , flying now a days has seriously started to take away all my mood , i still remember when i sat in a flight for first time when i was a kid it was such a joy.
Sometimes i even think ” Whether i have become too tall or they have shrunk the plane way too much , but suddenly one thing comes in my mind that my dad used to sit very comfortably with a very nice leg room and i am not that much taller than him , it gives me my answer that they have shrunk a lot “.
Whatever i used to think , that was a secondary thing now primary thing for me was now to have a hot water shower , i knew only that could ease me a bit but for that first to reach was The Hans Coco Palms.
Atlast after two and a half hour drive we were at The Hans Coco Palms , time to check in.
They had given me the Suit room , and just a glimpse of it had taken half of tiredness away from me. But i would accept, my wife was more happy and seeing her like this , suddenly she was looking like my 4 yr old niece as she almost imitated her in her movements.
After a hot water shower, we thought of going outside but after a suggestion from Hotel staff we prefered to roam around the hotel swimming pool only , we wanted to relax a bit before having dinner.
After relaxing a bit and taking some pics of swimming pool , now was the time to sit and eat. We wanted to have dinner outside at the pool side , as i could feel not a single mosquito was troubling me and i was loving the cool breeze coming from the sea , sea was roaring like a lion , amazing music to hear.
I just walked in to the restaurant and asked them if i could have dinner at pool side ? Thanks to Mr. Niranjan to whom i talked that time for Dinner outside , he said Yes , and trust me i think it took less than a minute for them to arrange a candle lit table for us on the pool side.
Dinner was ordered , just simple food , appetite had gone down due to tiredness.
All the time one waiter was standing right next to us , the time when food had not come while we were eating and even after we were finished , i had to tell him i am over and now i wont be needing anything so you can rest boss, then he left wishing us goodnight.
We sat there for some more time , i was loving the roar of sea , may be i couldnt see the tiger at Sariska National park recently thats why i wanted to suffice myself with roar of sea only.
Next day , early morning at 7.00 am i got up , please dont laugh, for a tired man sometimes its early morning.
I could feel the mist in air , it was bit foggy outside, sea had lowered its high pitch. I went for a little walk to the swimming pool , it was bit dark when we had reached to the The Hans Coco Palms , so till now i had not seen the whole resort even.
I had never guessed ever in my life , that morning would be so pleasant walking at that pool side feeling the mist in air.
Then came the right time , when i could see The Hans Coco Palms resorts full wide angle view, it was awesome. Sorry for Blurred image , my greedy camera was tired and his soul was in the charging mode.
After some hours , when sun was out and we were ready to move out towards Jagannath Temple , i came out to the balcony of my room , this awesome view was in front of my eyes. Sea was just in front of me , i could feel the waves coming towards me like they are calling me.
This is the best part of The Hans Coco Palms , all the rooms on first floor has sea view and all the ground floor one;s have swimming pool view. Water water everywhere and the eye soothing greenery , The Hans Coco Palms has been receiving the best green resort award in Odisha from some years and the proof was in front of me.
How could i deny the call of beach , we went for a bath as its considered sacred to go for Jagannath Temple after taking the bath at Puri beach.
I would say , it was the cleanest beach i have ever seen , compare it with any other beach of India , so far i found it to be the cleanest off , and i am not talking of the private beach area of The Hans Coco Palm only , the whole stretch is very neat and clean.
We went on towards Jagannath Temple , sorry i had not taken any pics of that as camera is not allowed there and didnt wanted to cheat Lord Krishna.
I know I am late but still I would like to share the beauty of my city in autumn .One fine morning while sipping my morning coffee I just peeped out of my window and saw the Ivy creeper on my backward wall has changed its colour and soon i realized its autumn in Luxembourg .
It reminded me of the peepal tree near my house in India whose heart shaped leaves use to turn yellow n fall on the ground crisp and crunchy . Here in Luxembourg also there are heaps of fallen leaves and my daughter just love to walk on them and i just enjoy her and the crisp sound of those autumn leaves, it reminds me of my childhood days , i could myself in her , thanks to the Autumn in luxembourg its such a beautiful feeling.
Luxembourg is dense and green its a rich green land which makes it more beautiful in autumn as the city changes its colour. Autumn is my favorite season not only because of the cool breeze and the mist in the air which it brings but because of the warm colours it brings with it.
This is the view of Petrusse valley from the Adolph bridge . Just look at the colorful palette it has shade of,scarlet, vermilion , coral ,sap green ,gamboge hue it has all my favourite shades of red green and yellow . The Petrusse valley just look beautiful in every season be it spring ,summer , autumn and even in winter it has its own charm.
Autumn certainly is the richest of all the seasons as it has maximum gold with it .It was a lazy Sunday so me and my husband decided to drive to Esch sur sure. Its a small picturesque village in Luxembourg surrounded by hills .we enjoyed the beauty of hills and valley ,trees on both the side of with there golden leaves were so warm and beautiful.
There is no doubt about the scenic beauty of Luxembourg even the smallest of the village has its own beauty . Esh sur sure is one of them . Its a tiny village with the ruins of oldest castle of grand duchy of Luxembourg dated back to medieval times .
Few kilometers away from the village is erected a dam water retention which creates a huge artificial lake .in summers people do various sport activities like diving ,swimming , cannoning . We too have couple of time have came here with our lunch and had done picnic here but this time it was just a drive around .It was a nice drive ,we enjoyed the beauty of hills and valley ,trees on both the side of the road with there golden leaves were so warm and beautiful .
If spring give flower then autumn give fruits .While we can feel loss of flower in autumn but in autumn every leaf is a flower and loss of flower is compensated by the fruits which are in there full boom the vineyards are full of grapes the trees are turned into Apple orchids . My daughter”s school took her to the orchids to pluck the apples Oh ! how thrilled she was when she came back . People plan their visit to Luxembourg to enjoy wine -making in Autumn when the Moselle villages moves to harvest celebration .Here in Luxembourg the markets were filled with pumpkins and city celebrated the Halloween.
Markets were filled with Halloween costumes both cute and scary ,decorative ,lamps, masks ,candles , ghost, pumpkins , corn,spiders,web , witch caps ,flower pots , small plant pots, etc everything had Halloween attached to it .Kids wore Halloween costumes ,painted their faces . Pubs and nightclubs saw devils dancing .It was fun !!!
People in Luxembourg put spooky decoration on their windows and all around the house . Shops too decorate themselves in the same manner .
we too decorated our house by the craft work done by my Little daughter at her school . it was a different experience as in India we don’t have Halloween and as child i never knew about it ,but i am happy and thrilled with my daughter.
It is rightly said that ” of all the seasons,autumn offers most to a man and requires the least of him “. Now when the autumn is over, the city of Luxembourg is gearing up for its winter and for the grand Christmas celebration . Yes Christmas celebration is the grand finale event of ever happening city of Luxembourg will upload more on its Christmas preparation and Christmas night markets in my coming blogs ….
Sometimes it happens when I am free and have nothing to do , want to spend some time for myself only and that is the time when my best friend comes in Handy, My Camera. Some days back it was the same time, was tired of travelling wanted to have sometime to relax and rejuvenate myself, in short I can say wanted to jot down some other plans, look for some places where should I travel now. Read More