The blog was written between 8 and 12 October 2020.
(Initially 1984 and 1985 Trips were in single doc. Edited/Seperated in May 2021.)
Irrespective of the date when the map was made and the blogged, It has been published backdated, to maintain historical sequence.
These backdated blogs are written as much to record our travels and places seen all those years in the past, as they are to present a photographic record of the growth of Ajeet and Anuj through those early years.
1984 and 1985 Trips.
This is a screenshot of our 1984 and 1985 Trips. This Screenshot is just to give you an overall picture of the towns and the tourist's attractions we visited. But these details cannot be accessed here.
Full details and description about them and the information/write up about tourists attractions visited by us can be accessed in "interactive" google map.
For an Interactive map go here.
Photos of some of the places we visited are given here. To see zoomable photos with captions go to
This is taken from main album 6 @
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LdZc5NcBXnHjTQgj9
1984 - Cochin Trip.
Cochin Trip.
Around that time Dilip and
Ulka were posted at INS Venduruthy at Cochin.
During their stay there, they had
visited us at Sulur in October 1982. Their visit had coincided with Golden
Jubilee celebrations of the IAF. Incidentally, this piece of information was
given to me by Dilip when he rang us up to wish us a Happy Air Force Anniversary
on 08 October 2020. I, of course, did know that they had visited us at Sulur
but I had forgotten the month and year of their visit.
Thereafter whenever they
could contact us they asked us to visit them. Finally, when they had received
their posting orders from Cochin we did visit them.
Do not remember the date and
month of the trip. Still, I can confidently say that it was after July 1984.
This because the photographs of the trip are colour photographs. We had our
first colour camera, a cannon, I had purchased in London when I had gone there
to do a two and half month Aircraft Accident Investigation course at College Of
Aeronautics, Cranfield in June July 1984.
Do not recollect the
location of Dilip/Ulka house. But we do remember that their house was last in
the row. Next to it was a boundary wall with a gate. It opened on a strip of
sand about 50 to100 feet wide. A couple of times we walked out there to have a
view of the sea/backwaters.
We travelled by train, this I can cay because
there is a photo of Ajeet and Anuj
sitting on the train.
The duration of the trip and
other details are forgotten. However, Priti also thinks that Sulur to Cochin and
back to Sulur would not have been more than 4 to 5 days.
