02-01-2015
2429 KMS
“Adu oru plate" (that one plate), "Idu Enna"(Whats this), “Ok idhu oru plate” (this one place), “Innu
koncha fish curry” (And some fish curry). The Hotel guy is
totally confused by Satish's eating habit. By now I have already completed my vegetarian lunch with only few option available and have scribbling down what we did from
morning.
We found a nice dark place to settle down with
Shakila last night in Calicut beach. After learning from our past experience, we did not put our tent there and just used sleeping mat and sleeping bag.
Since we were tired and had an awesome dinner it didn't take us much time to dream. It was pitch dark and we could hear the
beach sound quite loud and clear. Except mosquito it was all pleasant there.
“Wake up re, see this amazing view” … both tired body never
missed to see the fantastic view of the moon set. The moon was so big and the
bright path it created over the waves of the sea was welcoming for us to walk
into the sea. Not sure, if we can get such another scene again in our life and we regret all our life
for being so tired not capturing this moment in our third eye. More than me Satish is literally pissed of not taking advantage of that moment as a night photographer.
It was at around 6:30 AM both of us woke in shock to see the beach was already crowded by many joggers. In a distance we saw people
practicing yoga, coaching for women football team, beach volley ball being
played. We did quickly packed up the things, though not much was removed out
of
Shakila last night. A cyclist
approached us and we exchanged some experience with him. He was also a bulletier and
had travelled many places across india. He was there with his canondale bike.
Satish asked him “
Oh nice, you
ride canaondale”, he replied no “
Normal Normal”.
We quickly waved him off and started
towards the same hotel at AG street for breakfast, as it was proven good for last
night dinner. We had a heavy break fast. The cyclist had informed us about the “
Hotel
Rahmath” which is very famous for Biriyani. We were able to relate the crowd we
had seen last night at that hotel. Any one travelling to Calicut, don’t miss
these two restaurants, “
Hotel and Restaurant” and “
Hotel Rehmath” at AG road.
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| Very Good Hotel |
We started towards Kasargod. One pit stop we had planned was at Thalassery. It is around 70 KM from Calicut. I had been here
in 1999, during my engineering days driving my “
Hero Ranger Swing” bike from Mysore. Though I don’t remember the exact place, but I knew it was a very nice
beach.
While Shakila was very happy with the full tank gas, we also utilized that moment to get freshen up at the same gas station. We reached Mahe (Puducherry) in no time, the place we had decided to celebrate our new year. As Mahe comes under union territory, alcohol was too cheap and we bagged four cans of bear. Mahe can be described as "
street full of alcohol shops".
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After sometime on the way we took a short deviation from the main road to get in to Muzhappilangad Beach, Thalassery. The 5 KM long driving beach just took all our frustration out of those hot and humid climate. The beach looked amazing and I was very happy to
drive inside the beach, as it was the first time. We covered the entire beach on Shakila and stopped at one edge to take some
pics. It was few experiments, we did to get some nice frames. We reached this road side restaurant having a banner of Kerala meals served on banana leaf . It was so good picture, we could not stop our self to enter. Though it was a very simple lunch for me, Satish is having a feast here.
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David Agnejo and his girl friend were amazing. We had a very long chat and it was so informative. While Satish is getting the things out of the
bike to prepare our bed for tonight, I am in full mood of writing out
experience.
Though the intention of fort with beach long exposure
didn't work out well, we got some amazing silhouettes. The fort wasn’t big
enough to give the fort feel in the silhouette. By that time we had decided to
stay at the beach for tonight. While heading back to vehicle we found this
couple heading back to their hotel nearby.
It all started with a smile. I
just smiled at David Agenjo and a warm smile back from him gave me more
confidence to talk to him. They were
Spanish couple who were travelling across India. David is currently working at Mumbai and
his girlfriend Daphne is doing some kind of a research on Ayurveda treatments in Kerala. David joined Daphne for a holiday trip across Kerala. We had a nice chat about our travel experience in Kerala and they also took some advice to make their trip memorable.
This Spanish couple had a tragedy last night. They convinced one of
the local boat guy to take them for a ride inside the beach. Boat guy agreed and it was 30 meters inside the
sea a big wave put them down into the water. What a terrific experience !!!!!. While Satish was explaining the route map, David suggested for high tea. It was our pleasure and I drove
down to the city, while Satish started walking along with the couple. We reached the tea shop and exchanged our
travel experience with them. We also gave them couple of contacts and some
information we had gathered. Daphne had compulsion of visiting Hampi,
hence their plan was getting little complicated and we left it to the couple
to decide what route would be best for them.
We decided to have dinner
together and headed towards the apple restaurant near Bekal Fort. We discussed
a lot of things over the dinner table. One particular topic was about Indian marriages. Daphne was at Mahe for quite some to do her research on Ayurveda and she had gathered some
knowledge about the Indian culture and even had attended couple of marriages . She got lot of her questions clarified about Indian marriages from us. I asked David how it happens in their country. There is
only one marriage and its obviously love marriage. We could see lot of cultural difference between
us, but the travel bonded us together very well. While David and Satish opted for non vegetarian food, Daphne and myself settled down for vegetarian. Finally for the whole trip, I had a company
to eat vegetarian food. After the dinner, we waved them off to reach the beach. As
usual we didn’t want to let Shakila stay far away and struggled a bit to drag it in side the sand for 100 meters. We had settled down sipping our beer. Let me not mix the
drink with writing anymore. Good night!!!
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