on a friends whim, and upon realising that it was only a three and a half hour flight from Bangkok on Thai Airways, we decided to visit Bangaluru over the holidays. Our research had us filling our notebooks with fantastic restau- rants and pubs to visit. We pledged to one another that we would go off the beaten path and have an adventure, adding 7D Cinema, grape stomping, the snow dome and horse rac ing to our list of to-dos. In order to get in a bit of culture, we booked first class train tickets to Mysuru(Mysore) to take in the grand palace of maharajas past and finalised our preparations by