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Trip details: Place: Dandeli KM: around 450km from Bangalore. 54 km from Dharwad Mode of transport: Train and Bus No of People: 10 We were planning to visit to Dandeli from last one and half year, due to one or the other reason we were not able to visit. This time we all decided to visit Dandeli. Because of the distance between Bangalore and Dandeli we decided to go by bus or train. Considering journey comfort we decided to go by Train. We fixed the 23 rd December will leave Bangalore and spend two days in Dandeli and back to Bangalore by 26 th December. As we were visiting on year end and Christmas season, we decided to reserve the train tickets before 3 months. But no of peoples who will join was not clear. After so many emails, discussions, calls finally I got the no of people who all are joining to trip. I reserved the tickets for both way journey before three months of journey date. Nayak took care of cottage @ Dandeli. Dandeli is the sanct

Trips details: Place : Mekanagadde Distance: 250km from Bangalore Route: Hasan,Sakaleshapura,Mekanagadde. Date: July 31 One week end evening Guru Deepak and Me visited the JP Park [it is our almost every week end routine] and were discussing about the Guru's higher education.He was flying to Sweden for almost 2years [if he takes more time to clear the subjects it may even extend ;)], with the hope of  that he will finish his MS in 2years ;). We were teasing him with saying "don't worry guru we all friends will come with family to receive you"  . Guru suggested to have a trip with all friends.Also it was almost a year we friends had been to a trip. So we planned for trip on first week of August, as Guru was flying to Sweden in mid of August. Deepak took care of home stay and cab arrangement. As it is around 5-6 hour journey we left Bangalore around 1am. We reached mekanagadde around 6.30 am. Faced some difficulties to reach home stay, as we lost th

Cricket ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ?? ಎಸ್ಟೋ ಜನ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ ನೋಡದೆ ಇರೋರು  ಕೂಡ at least  score ಆದ್ರು ನೋಡ್ತಿರ್ತಾರೆ. ಇ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು ಇಂಗ್ಲೆಂಡ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ . ಬೆಳೆದದ್ದು ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂತಾ ಹೇಳಬಹುದು. ಬಾಲಿವುಡ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದ 'ಲಗಾನ್' ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಅಂತು ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ಹೂಸ ಕಳೆ ತಂದುಕೊಟ್ಟಿತು .ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗೆ ಬಂದ IPL, ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟನ್ನಲ್ಲು ತುಂಬಾ ದುಡ್ಡು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು ಅಂತಾ ತೋರಿಸಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿತು .. ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿದ ಬಗೆಗಳಿವೆ. 'Test' ಮತ್ತು 'one day' ತುಂಬಾ ಹಳೆಯ ಬಗೆಗಳು. ಇ 'T20' ತುಂಬಾ ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗೆ ಶುರುವಾದದ್ದು. ಇ ಟೆಸ್ಟ್ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ನ ನಿಜವಾದ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್  ಅಂತಾನೇ ಹೇಳಬೇಕು. ಇದು 5 ದಿನದ ಆಟ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಆಟಗಾರನ ನಿಜವಾದ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂಗ್ಲೇಂಡ ಮತ್ತೆ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ಮದ್ಯ ಅದೆಂತದೋ ಪೈಪೋಟಿ... ಇದೆ ತಂಡಗಳ ಮದ್ಯ ಪ್ರತಿ 2 ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೊಮ್ಮೆ ಒಂದು  test series ನಡೆಯತ್ತೆ, ಅದೇ 'Ashes' series. ಇ series ಗೆ ಒಂದು ತುಂಬಾ intresting ಆಗಿರೋ ಇತಿಹಾಸನೆ ಇದೆ. 1882 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ಇಂಗ್ಲೇಂಡನ, ಇಂಗ್ಲೇಂಡಿನಲ್ಲೆ  ಮೊದಲಸಲ ಸೂಲಿಸ್ತು. ಆಗ media " English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken t