By the Arabian on the Konkan Trip
This was another of those last minute planned trip that I generally end up with. One of my friend, Varun was getting married in Pune on next day of Christmas. Although I knew about it for quite some time but his last minute insistence became hard to decline and so I planned. It was then when I called up Vishnu to tell him about my plans. He told me that he would not be there in Pune because of some a trip to Konkan region. Konkan was a belt which I had always heard of but never had a chance to visit and hence I grabbed to opportunity to include it to my itinerary. So it was a three day trip I was onto at the night of 23rd of December 2011 and we were going to be 6 in all - Me, Vishnu, Ravi, Sandeep, Alok and Prashant. I boarded the Duranto Express, which apparently just had a operational halt at Pune and so I was required to get up early in the morning so that I did not miss the station. I was right there at the Pune station on 24th early morning calling Vishnu to announce my arrival....