After a loooong time.. after the loooong weekend...

Thittam:

This easter weekend was the longest weekend for me after coming to UK. Couldn’t really imagine sitting at home on all the 4 days.Thats when the Lake district plan took shape. It was a pretty good learning right from the word go.. One of my team mates took care of the car booking as I was not really aware of the intricacies involved in it. Instead I took on to booking youth hostels for our entire trip….After a bit of brainstorming on which place to visit,we decided on Lake district. Initially we had planned to go to Scotland but due to unavailability of the preferred youth hostels, we decided on Lake district..

Lake district is a scenic location some 300 miles from London. For more details on this place,visit http://www.lake-district.com/
It was almost too late as all the hostels were fully booked atleast the private rooms. But somehow managed to get a dorm accommodation at 2 places Langdale and Matlock.Finally this is wat the iternary read:

Friday:
9:00 am leave from home to Lake district.
2:00 pm---Reach lake district and go around for sometime
5:00 pm—find the way to the Langdale Youth hostel

Saturday:
Go around Lake district and return to Langdale for a peaceful sleep

Sunday:
10:00 am—leave Langdale and drive towards Manchester.
1:00 am – reach Manchester and go around the city for sometime
3:00 am – head towards Matlock for a night’s break

Monday:
10:00 am —Leave Matlock and travel to Sherwood Forest
1:00 pm— Reach Sherwood forest and meet Robin Hood
3:00 pm---Start the return journey back to London

I wouldn’t say the journey went exactly as planned. In fact it sometimes went so awry that we even started wondering if we ll complete the trip as scheduled and reach in time atleast for next day’s work!!

But it did go very well..some last minute changes going well….Of course we had to miss Oxford University as we were a bit late to start on Friday.Otherwise it was almost perfect….

Payanigal:
The 5 of us:
Mainak
Vishal
Moazzam
Sandeep
And urs truly..
Were all set to travel after getting all the required stuffs.. We had also planned to cook our own food in the youth hostels. So the previous day, we got all the vegetables,rice, coke,juice,munchies and some mouth-watering deserts( ya, my favourite black forest pastry and chocolate fudge was on the list)

Payanangal mudivadhillai..
It would begin in the next blog…..