Mandarmoni Weekend Break

After a few tough and hardworking weeks in office we escaped to seashore for a break. I wanted to have some time out side of office. As all 8 of us were from same office rather same project and same team too we didn’t able to refrain talking about project details, not only on our way to the place but also while having drinks to celebrate good time.

We hired a Scorpio CRDe to grab all the fun in spite of the fact that me and one another pal wanted to enjoy the long drive with our own cars. But boss (who was boss in office and outside office too... :) ) didn't want that. He insisted us to hire a car only. So we did. Actually he did.

Mandarmoni is a very good place for a weekend break. You can just fix everything on Friday and can have a long drive. Most of the resorts are almost on the beach. We started around 10 AM in the morning. Last night my job was to pick up few bottles of drinks as we were confident that we will not get our brands at the seashore or else the cost will be too high. We first stopped at Kolaghata. Few of us started boozing from the dhaba only. Masti began. We enjoyed a lot on our way to the place. Around 3 we were at our resort.

The resort was good. Anyhow we required few AC rooms for a night just. As soon as we got the keys we dressed up for the sea and opened the bottles. After few glasses we hit the sea. It was 4:30 in the afternoon and we were at sea. We enjoyed the sunset being in the water and then only we get up and headed towards the rooms. Basically we were tiered fighting with the waves. Hee hee. Who knows how long we would have been there if sun was not setting. Thanks to my waterproof watch ( ;) ) we know we were almost 1 hour 40 minutes in the water for the day.


We had our lunch at around 6:30 while other guests were having evening snacks. Who cares? It was really a pleasant evening. I can see many more stars at sky, night was darker, no body was speaking, no cars were honking but there was no silence. The sea was so restless. It was making up the background score. Just after lunch (sorry, I donno any other word) we decided to breakdown our own nervous system by allowing our own blood to carry more alcohol to the head cells. We finished almost 10 plates of salad, 5-6 plates of chicken, etc. in due course. All credit goes to sea. It made us so tiered and hungry I can’t explain. At 11:30 we had our so called dinner and had a very good sleep just after that.

I usually get up around 11-12 in the morning so 5:30 in morning was just mid night for me. Can’t help it man when you are sleeping in a same room with Boss!! With half opened eyes we all walked at least 3KM on the beach under leadership of boss. Mandarmoni beach is called as longest drivable beach in Asia. And we were walking. :( . I will suggest you to definitely have a drive on the beach. But beware of the getting stuck on wet sand. May be you can keep a pieces of wooden ply to put under your wheel when you are stuck. Otherwise local people are very much ready to help you on those occasions for few thousands bucks.

After complementary breakfast we again hit the sea. This time we had a ball to play. Mandarmoni beach is almost a virgin beach and you can see very few people on the sea so you can enjoy most there. We also enjoyed a lot in the sea. Again thanks to my waterproof watch we know exactly 3 hours 15 minutes we were on the sea on Sunday. At last we get up, had our lunch (this time almost on time) and started our journey back home.

Around 8PM I was at my Saltlake home. It was really an enjoyable trip. We all enjoyed a lot. We tried hard to stop discussing about data, process, project blah blah blah but we didn’t able to resist. And let me tell you those discussions were really enjoyable. Two of us lost their spectacles in the sea on the first day and on Sunday morning one of them was trying to find out his specs on the sand with a concept that sea returns everything. That was the funniest moment of the trip. He was literally asking everyone if they have seen any specs on the beach or not. Ha ha ha. You would have seen it.

Pack your gears up and go for the trip. It’s really a nice place. Book the resort well advance; you can have the contacts from net. Wish you a happy journey.