Oh I am very much excited thinking about my vacation to Chennai in December. But have a long list of things to be shopped before coming there! The best time in west is the christmas time but I will be missing it anyway. I will be celebrating my christmas as my first anniversary with my family. So I don't mind missing christmas :).
Have to start my full fledged shopping from next weekend. Just a month more! Wow..
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Long awaited trip!
My long awaitedtrip to Dorset and Brownsea Island came to an end. I wont forgive myself if I don't pen down it! Here it goes..
It was a saturday morning, temperature was around 5 deg with a slight drizzle at 5 AM. I got up, refreshed and booked a taxi to Norwich station. My roomie Bobby and his friend Satya joined me for the trip. We took a train to London waterloo. I was already exhausted and tired of the busy week, that made me to take a deep nap for a couple of hours and that assuaged all my body pain. We reached Stratford and took a tube to London Waterloo. If you haven't heard of Waterloo in London, Bourne Supremacy Matt damon would have roamed in the station for half of the movie! After 2 hrs of travel we took a train to Wool from Waterloo. Oh that was 3 hrs journey. I felt how am I gonna sit for another 3 hrs! gosh.. But you know it was drizzling continuously outside with mist covered fields, I enjoyed the ride very much.
We reached Wool at 12:15 PM and took a cab to my destination Dorset.Let me give some insight about the place. Its the Southwest tip of England having a Fantabulous sea shore! Lime Stone Cliffs, Pebble beach and strange shape of rocks. The place is exactly called as Durdle door due to the door shaped opening in the rock you find there. I took out my DSLR and started clicking whatever I see around. What an amazing fucking beauty it was!! For a minute I thought I had achieved everything in life. The place impinged in me with such a feeling. These are some of my clicks.
It was a saturday morning, temperature was around 5 deg with a slight drizzle at 5 AM. I got up, refreshed and booked a taxi to Norwich station. My roomie Bobby and his friend Satya joined me for the trip. We took a train to London waterloo. I was already exhausted and tired of the busy week, that made me to take a deep nap for a couple of hours and that assuaged all my body pain. We reached Stratford and took a tube to London Waterloo. If you haven't heard of Waterloo in London, Bourne Supremacy Matt damon would have roamed in the station for half of the movie! After 2 hrs of travel we took a train to Wool from Waterloo. Oh that was 3 hrs journey. I felt how am I gonna sit for another 3 hrs! gosh.. But you know it was drizzling continuously outside with mist covered fields, I enjoyed the ride very much.
We reached Wool at 12:15 PM and took a cab to my destination Dorset.Let me give some insight about the place. Its the Southwest tip of England having a Fantabulous sea shore! Lime Stone Cliffs, Pebble beach and strange shape of rocks. The place is exactly called as Durdle door due to the door shaped opening in the rock you find there. I took out my DSLR and started clicking whatever I see around. What an amazing fucking beauty it was!! For a minute I thought I had achieved everything in life. The place impinged in me with such a feeling. These are some of my clicks.
We spent around 2 hours there and then we went to the nearby hill called Lulworth. It was just an extension of Durdle door treating our eyes with more beautiful views. Mother nature was at her peak of beauty in that place. It was so windy and frivolous I was almost pushed down to ground a couple of times. I clicked as many pics I can.
After that we reached to Bournmouth a coast city where we had booked our hotels. Oh that was a bad experience searching for my hotel. It was hidden somewhere in the interior that made us walk nearly for an hour and a half. I was damn tired my legs and body were begging for rest since I exploited them the whole day! We found the hotel at last, refreshed and went to a Indian Hotel and finished our dinner. that night was the deepest and peaceful sleep in my life after a long tiresome day. Ofcourse an unforgettable day.
Next day morning we got set ready to brownsea Island. My long awaited dream for any Scout! Brownsea Island was the place where the first experimental camp held and that paved the path for a movement called scouting. Being a passionate Scout I always wanted to visit the place once. So we went to poole harbor from Bournmouth after having some bread and egg for breakfast. Poole Harbour is the Second largest natural harbor after Syndney. Such a wonderful place. We booked a ferry and it was a 20 mins boat ride to Brownsea Island.
We reached the place after a few mins of travel in the boat(Ferry would be better) and started walking inside. Since the place was of prime importance to me and one was of the Life time visit I had to click every single rock I saw there. Again a very beautiful Island that would attract a quite of tourists! 
We walked into the Scout Trail where we saw the Scout Commemorate Stone and Baden Powell Outdoor centre. I shopped all valuable Scouting accessories which I will never find in India. We took a quite few snaps in there and we tried to climb a few small cliffs but that was done meticulously so as to avoid any accidents! Time was around 4 pm when we took a ferry back to poole Harbor. I had some snacks in McD and got ready for 5 hr trip tp Norwich. Uff... that was a too long journey to take anyone's excitement and energy! and we reached home at 12 Midnight in that cold weather. My cozy bed was awaiting for me..
A trip that deserved to find a place in my personal diary! Amigo..!
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