Mandarmani to Puri #mandarmantitoPuri

Distance 395 km Road condition was 75 % good; many a bypass is being build along the way. Toll Rs 325.00 Route: Digha – (Egra-Solbatta) – Balasore - Bhadrak – Cuttack – Bhubeneshwar – Puri

This day too looked very gloomy and prediction was rainfall all day, no chance of fluffy clouds as we had hoped for, ( my dreams of making images with canto cumulus and Cululus all gone ) so we decided to take off for Puri, where I would be dropping off a friend and maybe visit Chilka lake, “ the largest brackish water lake with estuarine character that sprawls along the east coast of India. It is considered to be the largest lagoon in India and counted amongst the largest lagoons in the world. The Lake is a highly productive ecosystem, with rich fishery resources. “( source : Google) We started at 0815 post breakfast, we had 400 odd km to traverse this day, The car had been sitting idle for 2 days in Mandarmani outside in the open, I had to coax it a few time to get the car to start & it did start shuddering for a while, yes my battery on this car is 3 + years old, (yes I am little worried is there a issue with the car that is coming up I had another 1000 km of this trip to drive, but then I took solace in the fact another friend of mine Nandan drives a few 1000 km a month on highways and never has any trouble he uses a similar can like me, so “ all is well “ being the though ) & we were off, we now had a time line to stick to, my buddy had a bank to visit and we would need to reach by 1500 hours ideally, for it all to happen smoothly. We started out rains were not far behind and we enjoyed for most part of the day, we travelled via Digha – (Egra-Solbatta) – Balasore - Bhadrak – Cuttack – Bhubeneshwar – Puri

Lunch was a quick affair at a dhaba, my favorite road side food, anda tarka & roti, cant go wrong with this combo and the intelliget way for the dhaba owne r to fan the tandoor

Just as luck would have it, we encountered rains almost in all major city just as we entered the city it would start to rain torrentially, moving the two wheelers out of the road and we had no major traffic to deal with anywhere, while we were on the road we were not sure if Bhubaneswar would happen by 1500hrs, so I called a student who I had taught few years back at Xavier’s University, Smriti Das was sweet enough to call the bank, and co – ordinate our route to the bank and inform the bank we would be reaching by 1600 hours ( 30 min grace eh ) and we managed to make it by 1520 hours and got the job done, and a hurricane 10 minute visit with Smruthy was icing on the cake to boot. We were in Puri by 1720 hours and a little bit of traffic had us look for the house as did stopping to pick up supplies for the house, we were home by 1800 hours

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