Wander Bay

Very recently, I went on a houseboat at Alappey with my handsome bestie.  The journey was calm, much needed in dosage and the experience was sweet and serene. water, boats, daily life, bridges, kettuvalloms, canals, trees, glorious food tasting, awing at the size of lobsters, wading ducks, rowing a boat, paddy fields and the calm punnamada lake. look ahead the tattered bridge. slightly different, the angle. fancy them skies house. boat and trees pazhampori (banana fritters) and tea. life's this way just get into my mouth already, sexy! This was all mine safely, because my company was a fraud mallu boy sauted and boiled veggies. just good. cabbage sabji a little kitty awes at the fishes she might get her luck on! daily life | kuttanad. Punnamada lake and houseboats was much needed. I also waded through the water on a small boat, rowing across the vast 'kaayal' (lake), sheepishly looking at the life outside...

Tripped Images. Again, makes absolute sense why journeys are special. thank nature for the sun, sand, sea, beach and vacations! Chai and the express double decker train A splendid Bodhi beach Sandwich at Bodhi Beach Cafe. Cozy place and great food. Awesome tea I must add. Cafe Xtasi has the BEST BEST Pizza and really reasonably priced menu. Omnomnom.

I'll be travelling soon.  Good stuff come by rare, and here it is coming this side. Planning on a trip with a dear friend. waiting for those good times to do Rock' n Rolla! [ this is a photo  from Gokarna, Om Beach. Literally, a paradise ]

This time I fell in love with Gokarna even more! A place which has just ONE ATM, cows romping all over the streets chewing flower cud, women walking in traditional attires, pooja goodies and little God's statues, narrow roads that smells of incense sticks and blooming flowers, colorful all seems like from a different time. Time has stopped here and that's why perhaps, everyone gets lazy in Gokarna ! Cows gave us company. Loads of them. One more. Temple remnants- Street, Gokarna The music shop with the coolest of instruments. Mini-Sitar too !! Funky Kitsch T-shirt Colorful house and woman. ------- I wanted to get lazy; doze off listening to the sea and waves, see a million stars above me, tickle my taste buds, walk barefoot on the night sand at Kudle, be there; witness. For some good reason, all happened this time. We strode past the busting streets, music shops, tiny cozy beach shacks, ate well, saw 8 shooting stars over a star studded sky above, the 6 of us lay there lazed...

GOKARNA diaries. Participants: 1) Tim and Ramon (they're thick as thieves they are; two lovely, funny people from Germany) 2) Namrata 3) Sowmya kiddo 4) yours truely..!! (yeay yeay hail thy) the 3 mosquitoes. Namrata, Ramon and Tim. you should know Namrata ...! Evening it was; after dinner at 7:30 and a bit of footballing with the German gems of football, we set out for this. All of us are total sea babies! of which Water babies have special considerations! (me me me!) There are perks of living towards 'almo st the outskirts' of a city; you get all buses to all parts of the state from within there! We move and wait near the Jalahalli cross (awesome jalebis sell there dude....! round gorgeous and yummmmyyy... okok, no deviation from the topic) and stay put for half an hour. The bus scheduled at 9:30 pm arrives at 10:00 pm and I was to explain Tim and Ramon the essence of working on an Indian Stretchable Time. IST in short. amazing innit?! We board the wobbly- sleeper bus and...

Trippy Trippy Vagator Beach, Goa. Model: Shweta | Nikon D80.

That's my Bombay..! Marine Drive; August 2009