Years ago, when I knew nothing about sex, but surprisingly owed a lot of value to honeymoons, Doordarshan put a picture in my head - a romantic picture of Darjeeling.
The picture: On the left side, a huge tree trunk spreading its green leafy branches. At the bottom of the tree, a beautiful length of short grass with small colorful flowers reaching to right side of the frame. A couple stands beside the tree in a romantic embrace overlooking the still lake beyond.
My then juvenile mind decided that if I ever had a honeymoon, this would be it! I had promised myself, I'd go there with the love of my life, stand in the exact same position, take a pic and frame it! A testimony to my romantic dream.
The reality: My honeymoon was at Coonoor and I didn't complain much. But after 6 months of marriage, when Mylo (my love :D) and I discussed on our next trip, I screamed, 'Darjeeling." I sat him down, described that Doordarshany picture with puppy eyes and he obliged. I searched on Google images for a similar looking lake in Darjeeling, but nothing turned up. I should have known then.
Life's different on Doordarshan. Darjeeling was bustling with people. We heard there were two important lakes in Darjeeling, Senchal lake and Mirik lake. Senchal lake was closed to visitors as a few localites had decided to end their lives there. I told myself, Mirik must be it. That picture. After a long but beautiful drive amidst pine trees and sprawling tea gardens, we reached Mirik.
Mylo laughed. It looked like the lake in Ootty with no crowd. No thick tree, no blanket of green grass and flowers, no nothing. We just sat there on a wooden bench. I didn't feel like an embrace and he just laughed. Mirik would have seen murder..., but cajoling helped. For some consolation, I sigh probably the closed Senchal was the picture, but then I'd never find that out.
See! That's what you get for romancing a background.
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hehe.. replace the word Darjeeling with Bali and you get my story. Actually, it was beautiful, just not in a way I expected!
when will people start seeing life and places the way they really are!!
ha ha ... woman!!! Lovely writeup and lovely pics... :)
Btw, took that blr-hyd train a couple of weeks ago - and couldn't help but remember the race!!
I am getting addicted to your blog like ppl get to darjeeling tea....
Can feel your heart break gal...7 years in pursuit for my pre marriage honey moon dream took me to all over India and now to USA and the search is still on for that place where I look at the beautiful scenery below from a mountain while he looks into my eyes lovingly...Found many such beautiful places...those were too beautiful that he refused to take his eyes off them and look into my eyes...grrrr...maybe will have to take him to Darjeeling Mirik Lake
So, that's what happened! Did you try comparing pre and post nuptial Doordharshan clips of Darjeeling, and you felt the same way, and went ahead with this trip?
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it