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Our Bangalore Visit - November 2011

We two left Chennai on Saturday, 29 Oct 2011, 1140 AM, for Bangalore. With Ashok, and Neeraja in their Ford Figo car. It was our first travel to Bangalore in car.

It was a bit sunny and bright till we reached Kanchipuram junction (1-30PM); however, once we travelled 1 km ahead, it started pouring - very heavy rain, torrential. Rains continued, no abatement, till we reached Krishnagiri. We reached house at Bangalore by 7 PM. Car travel was most enjoyable.

30 Oct 2011 - Sunday
We went to Meenakshi Mall, one km away from Ashok's house. A huge mall on 4 floors. Ashok purchased lots of things.

01 Nov 2011 - Tuesday.
At 9 AM we left for City station from where we boarded the Shatabdi Express at 1100 for Mysore. Ramani also came with us. Read about our Mysore trip in detail in a seperate post. A marriage function was there in Mysore.
On our way to Mysore in Shatabdi Express

02 Nov 2011 - Wednesday
Attended the marriage at Mysore. Back in Bangalore by Mayiladuthurai Express 6-45 PM.

03 Nov 2011 - Thursday
Evening we went to Reliance Mart. Ashok purchased a lot for his China trip' I purchased a few thimgs for Aditi / Sowmya.

04 Nov 2011 - Friday
Went to Balasubramanian's house (Gayathri's parents) at Tilak Nagar. Lunch there. On our way back, went to Staples and purchased a lot of stationery items for Aditi.

Ashok left at 1030PM for airport and thereon to China via Hongkong.

05 Nov 2011 - Saturday
Ashok reached Shangai in China.

We went to Ulsoor / Indiranagar to Anand's house by G4 bus and auto. Lunch. Evening, went on a joyride by the new METRO rail. Pleasant and nice. Dinner at Anand's house.
Joyride in Bangalore Metro
Anand - Aishwarya are blessed with a girl child on 14 Oct. We went to see this infant. She is pretty and named AKSHARA.

06 Nov 2011 - Sunday
Went to Ramasubramaniam's house for lunch.

08 Nov 2011 - Tuesday.

We left house at 1230 noon after lunch. Neeraja dropped us at the busstop in her car. We took a Volvo AC bus (40.00 per) to Majestic and walked to the City station. Brindavan express left at 2-30PM and we reached Chennai by 8-45PM. Took a AC bus to Thiruvanmiyur where Arvind met us and took us home.

Aditi was so excited to see us and the "gifts" we had bought for her.

rajappa
5-30 PM
11-11-2011
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  1. UnknownNovember 11, 2011 at 6:00 PM

    Nice writeup. Was expecting more details and photos of "namma metro".

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  2. SA NarayananNovember 11, 2011 at 7:56 PM

    Magesh,

    Thanks. i forgot to take my Canon while visiting Indiranangar, so no photos. This photo was taken by Anand from his mobile.

    We travelled only for 2 stations and the train was heavily crowded. A bit more advanced than Delhi Metro as i saw a couple of years back.

    Unlike in Delhi, here in Bangalore the coach had TV monitors to display Time, next Station, Destination Station etc in three languages. This is apart from the audio announcements in 3-languages. Hope Delhi too has these coaches now.

    Another general observation is that METRO Stations, whether in Delhi or Bangalore are mostly anti-Senior-citizens !! Many steps to climb (though Bangalore has Escalators - but how many Seniors would get on to these Escalators?), kilometres to walk are some of the impediments. Lift is there, of course, but as we know, how long these lifts would "work" ?

    Rajappa
    11-11-11 8 PM

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