Taking off on a trip is not as easy or as hassle-free as all those travel channels make it out to be. It requires meticulous planning and attention to detail. Unless of course, one is prepared to wing it, rough it and take things as they come. (Where I’m concerned; the 1st and 3rd, yes, the 2nd- heck NO!)
In the course of winging it, one has to expect the unexpected. This can go either way, especially when a couple of big-city dwellers arrive in a small town completely unfamiliar to them.
Here are some of the moments of our trip that made us exclaim Oops! or Wow! I’ll leave it to you, gentle reader, to figure out which moment deserves what!
-When we spent 600 rupees to drive into town for a meal that cost us only 200/-
– When the date on our return ticket didn’t match the date of our check-out from the hotel.
– When we entered the Mango Tree restaurant for the third consecutive day and on seeing us the server immediately called out an order for the lemon ginger juice that we had guzzled in large quantities on our previous visits. And this even before we had sat down!
– When the salesperson at the emporium where we shopped advised us not to swipe our card and offered to drive one of us to a nearby ATM to withdraw cash instead. On his motorbike!
-When we decided to take an auto to the ATM and get the cash, he insisted that we take our packages with us (we had spent quite a bundle) and pay the bill when we returned.
– When we realised half-way along an unfamiliar road, that the cab-driver who was taking us to a spot 80 kms away didn’t know the way either.
– When the dosa that we ordered at a dingy restaurant in a dusty, nondescript town on the highway tasted far better than the one we had later that day at a Kamat hotel in Hubli.
– When our train glided into the station…on time!
– When we refused to buy large juicy pineapples from a seller on the road @ 100/- each, because it was too expensive. And because we were sure of getting a better deal ahead. We didn’t see another pineapple seller all the way from Hampi to Hubli.
And finally, the best for the last.
-When we were waiting at Hubli railway station, the WiFi there connected immediately!!!
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