Road trip to Nashik, off to visit the Sula Winery. Drive out of Mumbai along the National Highway No 3 for approx 180 Kms so around 3-4 hours drive. We got out of Mumbai well and enjoyed travelling at upto 50 mph! The dual carridgeway soon ran out as there were sporadic but very lenghty roadworks ongoing. Not your normal resurfacing works but complete reengineering. To get round the massive missing road sections they employ a contraflow system. This consists of simply creating a gap in the concrete barrier and allowing the traffice from the affected carridgeway to swap straight into the oncoming 2 lanes of traffic and then fight for space! Apart for the Ox drawn cart, every other type of motor vehicle is present on the National Highway, mainly very slow moving so Aftab is having to stay alert. Lots of breakdowns on the road with no real attempt to pull over somewhere safe so you end up with big trucks in the outside lane, normal branch of a tree sticking out of the back to show it is stationary - not quite sure what happens at night as the tree branch doesn't show up too well in the dark! Most impressive breakdown so far is a truck in the outside lane with its entire rear axle missing!
Had a tour of the vinyards and an interesting talk on how they make the different wines. One interesting fact, white wine can be made using both white and red grapes, its all about how long you leave the skins in with the juice.
Following the tour we then had wine tasting, followed by even more wine tasting and ending up with more wine tasting, needless to say an enjoyable time was had by all and I don't remember the drive back to the hotel! What I do remember once back at the hotel were the armed guards who were now stationed at the front door and on the landings, seems as VIP was staying.
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