Friday, 18 January 2008

Breakfast at Ooty?

for those who have read my previous posts: this is an invite for lunch at Shinkows, Ooty

Guess 1 hour at ooty is all i get to spend, in each visit of mine to this forbidden place . This time around we(nish koks deepa nan and myself) drove to ooty from coimbatore via coonoor. It was all fine when we started at 7 am. 'so far so good' but not for too long. once we hit the ghats the engine radiator started heating up. didnt seem worth worrying in the beginning. the first 2 halts (for the engine to take a leak) was just another excuse for us to pose at different angles and try and avoid hill sickness. the third pitstop was a never ending leak for the car. that was when we realised that something was actually wrong. time was already 9 and breakfast was getting cold at nan's place in coonoor( atleast 30 odd kms to go ) and our stomachs were grumbling. Like a Messiah there appeared a man who arranged for a mechanic only to find out that the fan was not working (simplified version of what i could decipher from the automotive language and terms that were being spoken). a temporary fan was fit to the car. we hit coonoor at 12 for breakfast. the serene tea estates and the flawless winding roads were quite a feast for the eye. The food disappeared in no time. we left for ooty and hit Shinkows (famous chinese restaurant). We can always make space to dump in over and over again... cant we? By the time we could finish lunch the plains beckoned.

whats next? how about breakfast at ooty?

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