What a pleasure it was to meet the famous Twin-Gemini Anand. He lives in US and is in UK on a short official trip and I must thank him for taking efforts to visit my place. In turn, I had the sadistic pleasure of watching him squirm yet smile while eating the food prepared by me. 
As soon as Fed downed Roddick we went to Stonehenge (do ask him about the experience), which is just about 45 miles from Bournemouth. Its an irony that someone has to come all the way from the other side of Atlantic to take me to a place that is just about an hour from here.
Only the day before meeting Anand, I read & commented on AF’s observations on UK. Anand had never read that post, but had similar observations on round abouts, separate hot & cold-water taps, dryer, British accent sounding like a song etc. Very interesting indeed. Apart from the fact we both are Gemini, Anand & I are alumni of the same school – though we studied in different branches and he is a year junior to me. On an average for the last 7-8 months, I have been meeting at least one blogger a month. Not bad, huh?
Hey, who is this anand? Is he HSSS junior? does he know me? We wanted to go to Stonehenges, but mavany neethaan engalai yemathittay!
Your maths is not all that bad
Any pictures taken at your house / Stonehenge?
Guru – Anand is from Indra Nagar HSSS, though he has studied in T’cane until Class V.
Stonehenge – what to say.
Kaps – Pics were taken.. in fact, we even carried tripod there.. we hav to make use of it, u see…
As i am yet to enter the digital camera era, i am waiting for Anand to upload his photos somewhere..
High time you arranged a indie-blogger meet in UK
Very soon Praveen… very very soon!!
Chakra, Andy and me HSSS Indra Nagar classmates and then after 12th, Elloits (Besant Nagar) beachmates
Neraiya vettigal orey school dhaan pola irukkey.. Anyway.. Uk tour ponaa anga OC’la(hopefully) thanga saapda oru veedu irukkungra sandhoshathula..Im logging off now
Maasathukku oru blogger meet paneengala! I’ve only ever met one blogger and even he hardly ever blogs nowadays
good to know that u guys had fun….anand blog la i saw a post saying that he was going to UK…patha oru mini bloggers meet potutaru
wanted to say the same thing as IOIIO….UK vandha chakra veetla dhan tent….
Surya – oh… so, you belong to “our” school..eh? Cool…
ioiio – defnly i wd make better gulab jamuns than u… welcome home!!
Subha – We did take few photographs.. I am waiting for Anand to upload it somewhere after his return to US.
Wicked Angel – When r u coming to UK next? We can meet so that it wd be a meeting of some active bloggers.. touchwood.
Me – His was a really short trip and I am so glad that he made it.
I’ll better put up a board outside my home – Free for Bloggers!
Venumnaa indha deal kooda pottukkalaaam..
Naan venumnaa samaichi poduren.. neenga sappidunga
Chakra, Free for bloggers-aaa? Yosichittu sollunga. I am sure the girls in London will soon get fed up of me, IMSE solraa maari inime Bournmouthla dhaan tent
*quickly checks the ticket price for bournemouth for the next long weekend*
Chakra,
Virundhinarai ubasarippadhi nam thamizhar panbaattai kaappaathareenga!!!! By the way, only bloggers dhaana, illa engala madhiri commenters (will ask Thennavan for a name!!) kooda UK vandha varalaamaa?
Missed to visit stonehenge, during my last visit there… Thought of looking for some pics in your blog.. you are not giving that opportunity. Let me wait for anand’s post.
chakra,
naanum UK varanum. ana naan vandha summa poga maaten. namma train mayakka marundhu kollayargal kitte koncham domain knowledge ellam kathukittu proper tools oda (powerful biscuit packet, spray etc) dhaan varuven. unga veetile neraya valuables ellam irukaame?
eppo varatum neengale sollunga?:-)
naan eppavume victim samadham illama kollayadikaradhillai.
ethics. ethics
What a coincidence! My latest post talks about talking to/meeting bloggers offline
wow! cool..:)
Ayyo paavam Anand, he shud tell us about that food that u cooked..;-)
Pk,
Venumnaa sollu oru naalu gulab jaamun anuppi vekkaren.. Anna Mayakkam varumaaa.. maranum varummaannu enakku theriyaadhu
Bloggers meet nu vaikkama, thani thaniya ovvoru blogger-raiyum meet panreengala?
ioiio –
> Naan venumnaa samaichi poduren.. neenga sappidunga
– aiya saami.. aalai vidupaa.
Uma – okay… free for Indian bloggers.
CM – got the ticket?
Sundaresan – Commenters illama bloggers edhu Sundaresan.. dharalama avangalum (i mean, neengalum) included.
Ram.C – Either I should buy a scanner or I should buy a digi cam. Will do one of them very soon.
PK –
> unga veetile neraya valuables ellam irukaame?
– yes yes… neraya valuables. inga vaa.. i’ll show them all.
> naan eppavume victim samadham illama kollayadikaradhillai.
– unnai en CBE la udhaichaanganu ippo puriyudhu..
kidding mate.. 
Thennavan – thats a nice coincidence.. isn’t it?
Nithya – I hav threatened him not to tell anything bad about my culinary skills.
ioiio – un pera solli yaaravadhu kitta vandha kooda odiduven nu nenaikaren..
PVS – Bloggers meet daan vekka mudiyala.. at least ipdiyaavdhu meet pannalaame.. very soon, i am thinking of organising a bloggers meet in UK.
Not bad at all! A blogger a month.
And Stonehenge is something I definitely want to see!
Even though it was a bit of a drive to Stonehenge, about a couple of hours from where I stay in Swindon, the drive was really amazing. Plus I could get to eat the food hand-prepared by Chakra
The food was actually really good, I am very certain I cant prepare anything even remotely closer to that. I will upload the pictures after I get back home. I havent even uploaded them to my laptop yet.
About Stonehenge, it was alright, wasnt as good as I had expected it to be, but it wasnt bad (but certainly there’s a lot of hype to it). I wanted to see this the last time I was here in the UK, and the wish gets fulfilled after 4 years. And yes, it was really nice to meet you – now I can put a face to your thoughts!