Tuesday 3 august 2010 2 03 /08 /Aug /2010 19:58
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This tree and many more around  was there long back when I was a regular player on this field  playing for my college ( Engg College, Trichur) and my 1st company I worked (FDSCN1434.JPGACT). This is called Maharaja'scollege ground, but open to all!
Now I could see no activity compared to full of children  and youth playing different types of games (Not cricket- Cricket was never a popular game in Kerala!
Next picture is a self photo with the background of this, my favourite, ground- It remains the same, but without the players!
This photo is the front view of the old Church of CSI. I used come here when I was small since we didnt have a church An Old church in my chilhoo, changed to new 'front'where we stayed (FACT, Eloor). I still remember a action song with other few children in the age group of 5 years. This is the 1st time I am seeing the new frontage (from an old style tiled roof)
 
 
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The next photo is from the old,old, "boat jetty". There were no highways  and so many bridges in my childhood. There were no tthrough buses to go to our home places and no trains for full length. SO we all in the family used to come to this boat jetty and catch the night boat to river side nearest to our hometown (sorry village!) where it will reach next day morning. (Destance was only 80 odd km, but boat ride was slow with stops on both sides of the rivers or canals. It was a veryh small amount. Now tourist hire boats for such a ride paying 100s of dollers! 
By Samuel Thomas - Posted in: Kerala, The unique tourist destination of the 21st Century of the world - Community: Your Favourite Places on Earth
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Sunday 1 november 2009 7 01 /11 /Nov /2009 20:19

Suddenly, after 11 years of stay in the Petrochemical town of Jubail,n Saudi Arabai,  I realised I am missing a golden chance of learnng SCUBA diving because it is a good center of SCUBA DIVING with many clubs and authorised trainers from Internatonal companies lke PADI

I just jumped in to join a tranng session spite of the protests from my wife and being overaged for such adventure sports.now I am an internationally certified SCand authorised to dive anywhere in the world an explore themagnificent underwater life (PLant and fish) (I will need more experience an specialty training though!)

Look at some of the photos after traning below! I wll put more underwater scenes after buying some water proof 'still and video' cameras

Have a look

Showing the 'parafernala' weighing quite a lot








My co-trainees and the Dive master- The instructor















By Thampysam - Posted in: ADVENTURE SPOTS
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By Thampysam - Posted in: Resorts, Beaches - Community: Your Favourite Places on Earth
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Thursday 11 june 2009 4 11 /06 /Jun /2009 19:54

Hi,

I was writing about my sojourn across the globe in last 25 years on a website called  www.nomao.com. It was a site I was looking for, exactly! I was the top ranker in that site. The site as I understand was created by some French youngsters to write about the places you liked most!  Not a travelogue but about favorite places you liked.

But then all of a sudden, the site was stopped. But with a short message that your entries will be transferred to another blog site, over-blog.com

So here I am!! This is not a specialized site for your favorite places, but a good blog site, also by French, and I think with some inputs from nomao team. (Or is it the same team?)

So I am trying to continue the idea of nomao (It was a great site -but not much publicity!) by starting a community of  ‘Your Favourite Spots'.

(Please see my 1st blog in this site at

http://thampysam.over-blog.com/
 

Few suggestions:

1. Please write only about the spots visited by you or your family or friends- I mean first hand experience

2. No sex, No racism (race is alright!)

See you!!

To start with, I put the Video of my adventure (I am a grandpa!) of sky jump in Phoenix, USA in 1997. This is a spot, I will go back some day!!



By Thampysam - Posted in: ADVENTURE SPOTS - Community: Your Favourite Places on Earth
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