Pondicherry

Since long time I wanted to write about this trip to pondicherry( or puducherry or whatever).

But its not easy to get free time these days. Doing a job sucks, but you can't help when you need money for things like- buying good clothes, party with friends and bowling . The day i will find the way by which I can get money for doing nothing, I'll be the happiest man on this planet.

Pondicheery is on the eastern coast of India. Earlier a French colony, it's a Union Territory of India now, which means that you will get duty free cheap liquor out here.

4 of us started from Bangalore via train. There is only a single train running from bangalore to pondicherry; and although it takes more time then a bus, it's much more comfortable. Jump in the train at night, sleep, and wake up in pondicherry.

We reached there saturday mornin

g. With heavy rain around we some how managed to get a rick, with the hope that rick wala will get us a decent place to stay at night. After a long search in the town we came to knew that all the hotels were fully packed with tourists.

Next few minutes we spent in mud slinging that why hotel room was not booked before starting from bangalore, but soon our bachelor minds came up with a "jumbo block-buster idea".

We decided that we will skip the hotel booking part and will jump to the part where we lie down on the beach and have fun, what if we have our bags side-by. So we straight away went to "bike on rent" shop, took 2 bikes, then bought rain coats (the rain never stopped during whole of the trip), and bingo!! we were fully loaded for a free ride. We were running around all of the town asking everyone- "Boss beach kidhar hai ?", "Where is the beach???". We looked like 4 crazy people, desperate to jump in sea water. Thanks to the language barrier, we started towards a beach far away from main town. As we were riding on outskirts of pondicherry we noticed a resort. We stopped to check it out and VOILA!! we got our roof, but the best part about this resort was that it was opposite a clean ,calm, uncrowded beach. As is evident, rest of our time was awesome in pondicherry.

Imagine you walking towards a beach in slippers and shorts with you friends

, cool sea air is filling your tee, you feeling the salt in your mouth every time you talking, sand getting in between your feet and slipper with every step you take, sky pouring the drizzle, and you don't have to worry about your office. It was immensely calming time and I was at peace.