Trip to 'The CITY of Joy'...Part 1

Sleeper class Train journey …

We 3 idiots (Meet, Harry and I) started our journey by train, the most used and the favourite mode of
transportation of indians.It was the Yeshwantpur-Howrah exp which shared the same destination as ours.
The journey started with a bit of disappointment as Harry had got the berth in the next compartment.
So we all decided to stay at one place, while disperse just before sleeping.
After adjusting our entire luggage under the seat, we settled down and were trying to digest the fact that,
we were actually going 2000kms away from Namma Bengaluru.

It’s rightly said that train journey can be enjoyed only if you are in a Sleeper class.
It doesn’t take much time to just start the conversations with the other passengers in your compartment
and especially if it’s a long distance journey.
Didn’t even realize how time flew while playing UNO, eating lots of snacks and playing memory games.
35 hours just went by playing, chit chatting, sleeping, and eagerly looking out of the window especially when the train used to cross a river bridge.


Day 1..Visited places like Park Street, Victoria memorial, science city etc..

Day 1 started with the cold breeze of kolkata.We reached Howrah station at around 6.30 am in the morning.
Our friend had already sent a cab. We planned to get refreshed in the waiting room at the station only.
But to our dismay, the waiting room was common for both ladies and gents and was already overcrowded and not in a condition to be used.

--> Flurry’s


Just then my friend came to the rescue, who took us to his house.
We took our leisure time to get dressed up in his 3 storey house and left for the breakfast.
The search ended at "Flurry's" on the Park Street. At first glance only, all 3 of us got a question in our minds,
"Is this place suitable for us??”But we were so hungry that before we could get the answer we were inside the restaurant.
The ambience was really good and the food was the best specially the mouth watering sandwiches.

--> Victoria memorial Hall

Our next stop was Victoria memorial hall. A beautiful massive white marble structure surrounded by the gardens looked marvelous.
It was built in memory of the Queen Victoria of the British Empire by the idea of Lord Curzon.Interestingly; it was built to serve
as a tribute to the success of the British Empire in India and was funded by the British Indian states only.
There is a museum inside the hall, with lots of paintings, pictures of Queen Victoria and her associates and also
of the Indian freedom fighters.

--> Science City

After visiting the museum we moved to our next destination which was "Science City".
It was wide spread, with more crowd than usual due to some conference.
We went over the science city, saw different scientific experiments displayed and different rides.
My most favourite ride was the TIME MACHINE, which was more like a virtual roller coaster.
It was 5 in the evening and time to go for my friend’s wedding for which we came all the way from south to east.
We dropped my friend who was a sweet guide for the whole day and moved ahead to our friend’s place, Nilgunj which was quite far from the main city.
As we moved the mercury was going down and down and could feel the real winter.

--> Shaadi time… Phere on one side fish fry on the other.

We found our friend waiting in his house for us, so had to quickly change the clothes and we started for his wedding venue.
It was my first time when I attended a Bengali wedding. Quite different from the south Indian weddings.
Before we could enter the wedding hall, fish fry smell entered my nose.
We met the bride, who was looking pretty in the red saree and there was our friend dressed in cream/white dhoti kurta ready to get halal.:-)
Harry and meet were finding difficulty to eat the veg dinner, while I was enjoying my favourite fish fry, mutton biriyani.
Day 1 was getting over and we were exhausted to the core, just waiting for a bed to sleep.
We were supposed to be awake to give company to the newlywed couple for the whole night which is called "Kal Ratri".
But we were dead tired and could give company only to our sleep.