MADras!!!

My brother Madhav finished his studies in Chennai and just came home. Before he vacated the city, he wanted me to come there, so that he could take me around and show me all the places. I finally got to fulfill that dream in the first week of March, 2007. The whole trip was exciting. For starters, it was the first time I was traveling alone by train. It was also the first time Madhav and I got to spend quality time together, doing fun things, that too without our parents around. We spent four days on his bike…roaming all over the place. We went to all the tourist spots in Chennai…museums, planetarium, temples, historical places like Valluvar Kottam, St.Thomas Mount. We also went to shopping malls and of course Pondy Bazaar. Went for a movie in Inox…my first time in a multiplex. And I practically lived on burgers, so much that I got a bit tired of it. And we traveled by electric train, which made it all the more exciting. Madhav looked after me so well that no one would have believed that he is my ‘younger’ bro. In the end, I didn’t want to leave Chennai…I’m so much in love with the pace of the city. Made me realize how much touch I had lost with the outside world, in these three years. I returned home with a tanned, smiling face; twinkling eyes, a CD full of photographs….and loads of stories to tell my folks! A trip I can never forget, ever.