WALTON ON THAMES

Suneel and I were invited for lunch by Martin who lived in a small english town called Walton on thames. The invitation to me was very pleasant and it was the first time that I actually travelled out of London during my time here over the past few months. Its quite funny how much i speak about the weather here and the weather on that day helped me enjoy the scenic beauty around the lesser confines of the fast paced world. It was about an hours journey so it was short lived and gives me that eagerness to do some sight seeing in the near future to other parts of the country side.

On arrival we were driven around the town to see some parts of it and were shown the castle of Henry. After a drive past the castle we were taken to a local park and cricket club beside it which was on the banks of the river thames. The houses on the banks of the river were magnificent and would surely be lovely to stay there for a while.

For lunch we had some indian chicken tikka masala and rice and boy was it yum. Had a treat to some nice choc pastries after lunch. The funny part of this trip was the ride on the bike. Well thats a different story will disclose that sometime in the future :) well if u wanna know then u have to meet me in person. It was a beautiful beast 1000 cc and boy would love to own something like that someday.

At the end of the day we all headed back to london like three musketeers and headed to a spanish bar and restaurant and over drinks we debated on various topics and if the US is to be blamed for its influence over world governing bodies like World bank and ILO. It was one of the interesting debates that i have had and will remember this.

I thought that was it for the day but it wasnt to be back home there was another debate on the repression of women in society in india where i didnt debate much on it but i was there listening to some heated conversations over a couple of hours and the heat got to a point in between where even the fire alarm bell went off. We indians surely know how to turn on the heat BUT the alarm wasnt because of us there really was something burning in one of the other kitchens on the floor.

Another eventful and memorable day in the week gone by and the time has come to get back to college for the Lent term and make the best use of it and squeeze the max out of what i can take this term. Lets see how it goes.