ISKCON Temple Nigdi

I visited ISKCON Temple near Nigdi yesterday. It was a nice place to spend an evening with your family.

Timings and Route: I left from my home in Aundh at 6 PM and took the route shown here and reached there by around 6:40 PM. There are different times for aarti and the next one was at 7 PM. The last one had already completed at 6:25 PM so we were neither late nor early.

We took some pradakshina around the temple and then waited for the curtains to open to have a view of Krishna and Radha. I told my wife how beautiful the multi-color chaniya/lehanga of Radha looked. I even searched for photos of temple and didn't find such dress worn by her in earlier photos Google search.

Fees: There were no fees for the temple.

Food: There was some prasad being given outside the temple and we took some to taste it. It was delicious at best.

All in all, we did enjoy the trip.

P.S. : No selfies were allowed in the temple but I had taken some photos of the temple itself and looks like Krishna didn't like it since I forgot my slr camera lens cover in temple itself. Big punishment for taking photos!My daughter found the lens cap from my car. So no punishment from Krishna in taking snaps.

Lashkari Bhajiya Dumas

Typically I write about places in Pune but this time I visited a nice eatery near my native place Surat and I wanted to share my experience. We went to Dumas to eat Bhajiya this Sunday when I visited my native place Surat.

Food: You get to eat different kinds of Bhajiya here that includes:

• Tomota Bhajiya
• Onion Bhajiya
• Methi Bhajiya (Gota)
• Ratalu (Kand) Bhajiya

Charges were 80 per plate (which included around 250 gm of bhajiya) but were varying based on the type. For a group of seven of us, we hardly spent around 500 for our breakfast. I also took parcel for my parents as they didn't accompany us. All in all it really was one of its kind experience. I would recommend you to go there if you visit Surat.

Greens and Olives Aundh

We visited Greens and Olives restaurant on last Thursday as part of celebrating my wife's birthday.

Food: The menu of the restaurant is available here. The restaurant offers buffet lunch and a la carte. There were many items on menu but we ordered following:

• My wife and I ordered Brocolli Cheese Soup - we really liked it.
• We ordered Classic Italian Minestrone Soup - this was plain soup so we didn't like much.
• Lebanese Platter - this included Falafel with Pita Bread and Hummus. I had recently eaten a similar item in Surat and I knew how to eat it otherwise it was difficult to understand how to eat it.
• Mexican Rice - This was the best item we had.
• Brownie with ice cream

The total bill came to 1635 which was a bit on the higher side for three people but due to my wife's birthday, I didn't care much.