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Dublagadi -> Barkul (20.2.26)

Bird’s eye view   350 km today, that too almost straight as an arrow, parallel to the coastline of Orissa, should not have taken a very long time, but it took us 8 hours, including two hours of a leisurely lunch and coffee. As Billy Goat famously said to Nanny Goat: “If you can’t beat it, eat it.”  So gastronomically, today was a good one, as we shall see. Roads were excellent, as expected, though speed limits kept our average below 60 kmph. OD plate drivers, especially around Bhubaneswar, have a marked tendency of inserting their muzzles in front of my bonnet, like tickle-deprived golden retrievers.  Panna also drove today for an hour, recollecting her skills from her drag-racing days, and I got a well deserved break.  Now for a few details.  Sunrise at Dublagadi (6.00 am)  We had seen a lot of haze last evening and were apprehensive whether Ra would show us his pre-coffee face. But we need not have worried. Ten minutes after we hit the beach,...