Weekly Trips to Ooty Church

Room with a view – where I stay when I am in Ooty. The apartment I rented when we liv…

This is where my Friday morning coffee and meditations on the word take place

The rooftop restaurant on a misty day

Derailed train, there were many other bogeys all over the place, but did not take pic…

The last of the 14 hairpin bends up, or the 1st on the way down. Somewhere around her…

waiting for the bus!

Overtaking a bus. on the side of the mountain, with a blind curve in front

memories of a landslide

Bamboo!

One of my favorite tea places – Right here: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=11.3222205&lon=…

I get tea from this guy almost every week on my way back home.

Love this tea

The tea making machine

The tea-cup washing machine

reminded me of the lives of many people before they give it to Jesus. This is somewhe…

Taken from the cab, approaching Metupalayam. This week, I took a ‘shared taxi’ instea…

traffic

Oops

You can see the meter-gauge railway tracks with the traction track in the middle. Ful…

waiting for the train home

Coimbatore station, platform 1

People get ready There’s a train a-coming You don’t need no baggage You just get on b…

Went to Ooty in a car with my cousin, well not exactly a cousin, but then we are all …

Crossing from Kerala to Tamilnadu; across the bridge

L&T Tollway – Coimbatore bypass

Taken near Connor, glad the train in up and running again.

The view from my window

more pics shot from my window

Found my favorite Pizza place empty – The Sidewalk Cafe, Ooty

Pizza Margherita is a pizza prepared according to a recipe of the Italian chef Raffae…

In my Taxi from Coimbatore to Ooty

The road in the middle is the old British road – Metupalayam Road

The 1st hairpin bend up the mountain

Near to where I stay.

road-side lawn mowers.

Coimbatore Railway Station

The Cross and the Taxicab

The man in the mirror

The mist rolling in the morning that I left.

Coimbatore to Kerala border

Crossing from TN to Kerala

well, now we know

trucks lining up for the border check post

From Metupalayam to Coimbatore, the low traffic route

Met this French couple on the train to Coimbatore. They were going to Ooty with a sto…

Sometimes “Hotel” means Restaurant. Guess what you get if you eat here?

A wooden cross on a metal bridge in a taxi cab.

NOT a road leading to or from Ooty. Mount Terrible, on the way to Eilden in Victoria …