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Padur, Tirupporur,Mamallapuram

Our eldest son ARUN has planned to purchase a flat at Padur, about 25 km from Adyar. He took home loan from SBI. The registration was on Thursday the 19th November 2009 at the Sub-Registrar office at Tirupporur, another 10 km away.

Arun, Gayathri, Sowmya, Sriram, Vijaya, I, and Mr Balasubramanian (Gayathri’s father) started at 10-50AM on 19-11-2009. Earlier we reached his house at 0800 AM, had lunch there.

After travelling for 45 minutes on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), we stopped at Padur and saw the site where the building will come up. Now it is barren. From there, we went to Tirupporur. The Sub-Registrar office is located near the Murugan Koil tank. We reached there by 12 noon.

The signing of the official papers by Arun was completed by 2-15 PM. So now Arun-Gayathri are officially owners of the house. While waiting, we took idli there on the steps of the koil kulam. Sriram and Sowmya enjoyed the kulam water.

Once the main job was over, we decided to relax and proceed to Mamallapuram (aka Mahabalipuram) 15 km away from Tirupporur. This is the first-ever visit for me.

At Mamallapuram, we saw the Pancha Rathams, Arjun Tapas, the Shore Temple, the butter stone etc. The children enjoyed the outing. We left there by 5-30PM and after a cup of coffee at GBS house Adyar, we two returned to Karpagam Avenue by 7-45 PM

A nice and fruitful trip.

On Saturday, the 21st November 2009, at 5 PM we went to Padur again with Ashok- Neeraja and Gayathri – Sowm – Sriram. On our way back, we took the children to Besantnagar beach.

Rajappa
21-11-2009
6-45 PM

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