North Pole - 1

'I think you should sit at home and save some money instead of going out so often.' But staying at home, with nothing much to do and nothing on the TV, with just an idle housemate as you are can spur a lot of things. Now, all the perverts stop reading right here. You have got the seed for your imagination and there is nothing exciting and kinky after this.

What really transpired from the idleness cost me a lot of money. It cost me a little over a thousand pounds - my entire life savings. It all began with one simple question: 'How north can we travel?'

N: So raja, What are you doing this weekend?
raja: Backpacking to the arctic circle.

With a backpack, a new pair of shoes and my debit card I entered Heathrow and cleared all the Norwegian Kroners that all the American Express Forex depots had in stock that day. I was going to be the second Indian (Or at least that is what I thought) to set foot on Longyearbyen, the northern most human settlement in the world.





Confession: I have an ASS* now which will last for the next 7 days. Like common cold, this condition has no cure and will naturally fade away. Because of the condition, I named the post 'North Pole' even though I was a good thousand miles south of the north pole.

* Attention Seeking Syndrome