India Trip 2024
We go back to London on a flight on 4th Jan 2025 at 3am. We start from Balod at around 4pm. It takes about 6 hours to reach Nagpur airport. But this time around it took 8 hours and we reached just after 12 midnight. The road to Nagpur was largely good but there were these patches of bad roads with jammed traffic due to construction work. It reminded me of our last trip to Nagpur. There is always some construction work going on. We decided that we will take a different approach to travelling to Nagpur next time. Perhaps go to Kurai or Seoni a day before and relax.
After leaving from Balod, we stopped just before hitting the highway at Rajnandgaon at a little hotel for some tea and had some samosas as well. Neha said she liked the samosas I got in Balod better.
At around 8pm, we wanted to have dinner. Although we had some food packed, we wanted to stop at a hotel/dhaba and relax as well as eat. Get some hot food for Neo as well. But it was a December night and quite dark and we couldn't stop just at any hotel. It had to be a safe hotel. How do you say whether a hotel is safe or not? Well lit? Enough number of people? No smoking or drinking? We got lucky and found a restaurant called Goan Restaurant just before entering Bhandara. The bathrooms were super clean and the staff was helpful. The menu looked delicious. Unfortunately, the daal and currys were too hot for Neha or I to enjoy.
Before I forget I must mention that we were travelling with Rajkumar and Sangram bhai. Very helpful as always.
The plan was to leave Balod by 2. But I went with Rajkumar bhai to get the following items from Balod: a water bottle that Shashi bahan forgot at Ahuja collection, some bananas and apples, confirmation that my and Neha's HDFC account was closed. We picked up Khyati betu from her school on our way back as well. There was one particular task that I needed to do that made the trip necessary but I can't remember it now. On our way back we also had Khyati, Telisa, and Atharva betu and we stopped at Sumit Bazar and I got a Cadbury Silk for Neha there.
I did lots of packing. I just take too much time packing things. One simple rule I have found useful is you pack what you find.
Posted in: on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at at 8:10 PM