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If I am correct, I think it was anywhere between 1975 through 1978 I went on a South India tour, For some reason my mother could not come and I went with my Uncle Vincent, Aunt Regina and their son Arulkumar. My Uncle resides in my mothers village Kaniyambadi. He is my mother's cousin brother. He was a Math teacher in Kannamangalam High School. This was one of those beautiful trips and I still would love to take a trip like this visiting so many places in South and North India. The places we visited during this trip are (This is me trying to remember after 40 years - I am almost 98% sure of most of the places but there could be more places I would have visited but with my memory what I could these are the places): 1. Thiruvannamalai Temple 2. Thanjavur Temple 3. Thiruchendoor Temple 4. Poompuhar 5. Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple 6. Alapuzha Dam 7. Trivandrum 8. Thirusoor Temple 9. Rameswaram 10. Kaniyakumari I very well remember our Thanjavur Temple visit with the N...

Trip to Sathanoor Dam with my parents,  my cousins, my aunt, my uncle, with our family friends in late 1960s when I was very young and also in mid 70's and my last trip here was just recently in 2009  as I really wanted to see this place which I had visited when I was a child. The memories that I can cherish after my death also.  Being a Vellorian - I think I had a great time travelling from the time I was young. I made blunders in my life after 1993 but at the same time I had good times. The only sad part is that I am unable to enjoy these lovely moments to cherish with people who are dear and near to me.   I do not remember which year, but I am going to be uploading photos from my trips with my mother and my family members.  Sathanoor Dam - A beautiful place which was built in 1954 almost 12 years before I was born. I remember that there were several movie song sequences that were being shot here at this dam because it had a nice garden. As, I remem...

My Velankanni Church Trip Blog http://www.vailankannishrine.net/ This has always been my favorite destination when I was young and even now at age 52 when I started creating this blog. I really wanted to create this blog as a memory not only for me and the memories I had with my parents, but I remember the good times that I had with my parents before things started falling apart. We were so happy when I was young and we traveled to all these places.  The peace that you get when you go to this place is such a wonderful feeling. Those days to go to Velankanni from Vellore we had only two options 1. Train and 2. Bus 1. Train - A long Journey from Vellore Cantonment - Villupuram Jn -  Nagapattinam From Nagapattinam we have to take a bus to go to Velankanni.  I remember this very well when I was young. Once we reach Nagapattinam we used to see a huge Mother Mary's Photo. By Bus to Velankanni from Vellore used to b...

John Francis - 1971 Our Lady of Lourdes Basilica Chettupattu (Tamilnadu) I might have been probably 5 years old when my grandparents who used to live in Kaniyambadi used to go to Chettupattu Poondi Maadha Festival. My mother and me used to go to my grandparents house in Kaniyambadi and from there my grand father took his bullock cart and we packed all our baggage and also we took all cooking utensils and we left to Poondi Church Festival. It used to be a covered bullock cart and my grandfather used to ride the bullock cart and we used to sit inside. At least 10 of us went, my mom, me, my grandpa, my grandma, my aunt, her children. The festival used to be a day long festival and we used to travel for one full day to reach the church.  I remember this from the time I was young that my mother who is a strong believer of Mother Mary. We also used to go to Velankanni Mother Mary's Church in Nagapattinam. I will be writing a separate blog about this and the trips and the joy...