What’s your plan? - Travelogue (Nagpur to
Bangalore) dt. 28th Sept 2013
Part Two
-Still in the Train-
Soon after my lunch, I headed to the next coach to find the conductor.
He sat in one of the compartments chatting with another fellow mates. He wrote
me a bill for the ticket, and I finally got a sigh of relief for the onward
journey. I had a pretty relaxing nap post all the exhaustive undertakings. The family
guy is watching me write this article and we hit off a conversation. He
appreciated my writing, and I hope you are too! ;) The guy is a travel agent in
Nagpur and takes frequent trips with his family to places. My kinda guy! After
a brief chat, and writing the previous article, I revisited my Eurotrip photos,
which made me all nostalgic! I showed them the pictures and told stories about
my trip. In return, I got a pretty good dinner offered by them! *bingo* I had
the most tasty Curd-Rice ever for dinner and some parathas. The train was 50mins late but it had covered almost half
hour of the time. My friend, Rohan was meeting me at the Secundrabad station
and we planned for dinner. Also I had to look out for the next available bus to
Bangalore, my final destination. It was again a gamble I was playing, but worth
the experience. It was getting chilly inside so I moved to the door to get some
natural air, spent some time talking to the fellow guy there. The station soon
arrived and I waved the family to head on to the next madness of the trip!
-In Between-
The station, Secundrabad brought
in a lot of memories from my childhood, I’ve never been there, but my grandpa
used to be a TTE at this very station route. I got a picture of the train
station while I was out looking for my friend, and I must say it’s a beautiful
place! One of the best train stations I’ve seen. Soon I met him and we headed
first to secure a ticket for my journey ahead from there. Luckily, the booking kiosk
was on the other side of the road. We inquired about the bus and it was ready
to leave from the nearby stop. I shelled out another 900 bucks for the ticket
and we went ahead to look for an autorickshaw till the desired place. Chatting
in the available time we had, we shared a lot of things on the way.
Now, one of the famous places of Hyderabad, the Paradise Circle was my
bus pick up point. This place is known for its world famous Biryani. I quickly dialed my friend in Bangalore, where
I was planning to stay, if he was interested in having some of the world famous
food item, he replied in positive (who was I kidding anyway!) We rushed in the
take away section and got us some yummy biryani!
We chatted more and walked hurried towards the bus stop. Finally I got to the
bus waiting for its passenger to arrive.
-The Bus-
As soon as I got inside, it felt like deserted land. There were hardly
any people in the bus! I got in my assigned seat and settled myself with all
the mess around. There was a movie going on, Once upon a time in Mumbai Dobara. It was a sequel to a pretty good
movie and I was happy they weren’t showing some stupid movie, else my travel
would have been ruined. Soon my co-passenger arrived and we head off with a
chat. The bus halted in a while for refreshments and I got a pack of juice as
my dinner. Opening up the little box given by mum, I found some sweet bread in
it and viola, my dinner was done !
ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
-Destination-
Okay I slept in there. It’s already morning. The bus halted pretty far
from where I wanted to go and I had no option but to get down. My fellow passenger
was getting off on the same stop so we head out to find a conveyance till out
destinations. After struggling with the luggage and some mouthing with the autowallahs, we found a nice cool cab,
which offered us a ride at dirt cheap rate. Without another thought, I got in
zoom we went ahead. The driver was pretty fast and helped me reach the specific
address in just 20mins! I got off, waved the new acquaintance and waited by the
side of the road till my friend, Aditya arrived.
There! I complete my first travelogue. Good night I’m tired. Hope you
did enjoy it J Share the love
in the comments below! Caio!
