Able Miller

(17th April 2008)The Last Day of the Learning Journey Narrated By Able Miller;

It Was Very Warm in the Breakfast room as the group came in one by one to hurriedly help them selves to break fast and then continuing to prepare their final arrangements as it was preplanned that the group would split today with some making a return tour back to Chennai to catch the flight home whilst some were to remain in Chennai and it was apparent that the group was reluctant for this moment.

Finally after tearful and heart breaking goodbyes, the group departing for Chennai departed at approximately (12:00) Twelve pm. The group soon settled in the bus and everyone was chatting and viewing the somewhat chaotic transport system which amazingly did not produce any accidents but a lot of close shaves.
The group was able to view the amazing scenery in between the built up areas and all was going well when somehow the driver who seemed to be intrigued by our group director Richard, suddenly realised he had to negotiate anther close shave, and recklessly changed gears, there was a grown from the gear box and the driver continued to drive in third gear as if nothing had happened until we reached Poonjeri where we had a scheduled lunch stop at GRT Temple Bay. We all had a very lovely lunch in the most beautiful setting one could imagine, there was a lot of joyful banter as the group had their lunch. After lunch it was then revealed by the bus driver that the bus was no longer fit to continue the journey, and as the next step of the journey was to tour the stone carved temples alternate transport had to be arranged for the tour and for the rest of the journey to Chennai. The tour of the Temples was an amazing trip and between trying to convince the local population that we did not want to buy some of their wares we managed to take some pictures and finally return to the Resort.

A short while after our arrival at the resort the alternative transport arrived to take us to Chennai and after a quick shuffle of our luggage we were soon on our way again, but this time it was beginning to get dark and the traffic as we approached Chennai became very heavy and it was a slow journey which ended mercifully at 19.15pm a quarter past seven in the evening. As soon as the bags were offloaded the group had a brief meeting in the reception area where it was decided everyone was to meet at 8pm, for our last supper together, this was enjoyed at the local KFC.
After returning to the star hotel, the group gathered in the hotel reception to say their goodbyes and dually parted.