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Ahmedabad diaries

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It had been quite a while since I travelled anywhere, and even longer since I wrote about it. Thanks to some divine intervention, a friend invited me for a holy Holi trip to Udaipur, with a few days' stay at Ahmedabad. Day-0, Sunday, 13-Mar Since he was to travel from Bangalore, I went there too for a weekend, catching up with relatives before boarding the flight to Ahmedabad on Sunday night. Bangalore was at its nicest because of the weekend - i.e. less traffic, despite the metro construction work dotting the outer ring road. While waiting for a friend at Indira Nagar, I stumbled upon this plaque which at first felt like a joke installation, but the "BBMP" on it was surprising. It was interesting to discover such mapping solutions, the most recent one I knew being What3words . Anyway, I reached the airport in earlier than I thought - the flight-fare was expensive, as it was all planned in a short notice, but I had taken the rest of the week off, and had decided not