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Gesco Boyz at Zostel Lonavala

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  The annual outing of the “techie boys’ group” is something we have been having regularly, starting with the first one in October 2012 over twelve years ago. This is an event which everyone dearly looks forward to with always the lurking fear that a work-related travel would crop up on around that very day; having said that, not much coaxing is required for the folks to join this annual weekend break. After every such meet we always wonder if we will ever have a better event the next time around, but Sunil and Laxman have been raising the bar continuously over the last decade or so and this time it was no different. The rendezvous selected this year was a quaint little place called Zostel plus right on the edge of Pawna Lake off Lonavala. The scenery when we first hit the cottages which are a part of the resort facility was breathtaking; normally such a scenery you don’t usually associate with Pawna Lake or maybe it was the heavy rains over the last few days which were part of t...
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  The annual outing of the “ techie boys group” is something we have been having regularly, starting with the first one in October 2012 almost ten years ago. This is an event which everyone dearly   looks forward to attending   and not much coaxing is required for the folks to join the weekend break. The last one we had was in December 2019 and then in March 2020 the complete world around us changed with the onset of Covid 19 and we were never sure when we would have the next such outing . Some attempts were indeed made when the pandemic situation appeared to be getting under control in late 2021 but suddenly before we knew it the third wave was upon us .In the end, just as fast as it descended , the Omicron led third wave was behind us and planning began in earnest by our two able organisers Laxman Nadar and Sunil Salian and the weekend of   26 th March 2022 was finally decided upon to pencil into everyone’s diary. When this annual outing was started way back in ...