Preview of Indianature’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Avalanche, India Entry Title: “Avalanche, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu” Entry: “The Nilgiris: Avalanche Revisited Dec 2008 – Jan 2009 Tiger Sighting on New Years Day Some hasty last minute plans saw us on the road to Avalanche (pronounced Avalanchi) just after Christmas. Jagdeesan, our regular taxi driver from Coimbatore was unwell, so he arranged for his friend Vinod to drop us there via Karamadai, Ansur check post, Mulli forest, Veliyangadu, Geddai, Kundah, Yedekadu and Lawrence. The ghat section of this route is primarily TNEB road, hence traffic free and very scenic, traversing dense reserve forests between Ansur and Kundah, with 43 hairpin bends. The road is good except from Yedekadu to Lawrence which is so so, and the 8km stretch from Lawrence to Avalanche which is downright horrendous – unchanged from the last three years. We stayed at our old haunt, the Forest Rest House. The ‘official’ Forest department cat, a beautiful chubby charcoal coloured fur ball, waddled over with a welcoming meow. Avalanche never fails to transport the soul to a higher plane. The pristine forests, invigorating clean air, crystal clear blue waters, can not be adequately described; this must be experienced. Winter nights are freezing, with minimum temperatures ranging from -2 to -6C more often than not …
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Now we’re not mentioning any names, but I’m sure you can work it out for yourself, simply look for those oh so familiar sale sign’s plastered all over the carpet shop windows.
Now lets have it right, we’re all for enterprising businesses making a profit but 1000%+ profit on carpet gripper, and 300% profit on carpet underlay we think is just a bit much, especially in these financially tight times.
The other thing that frustrates us is that in the early days they seemed to be supporting the UK manufacturing industry by pushing their products heavily through their huge carpet stores, but as they got bigger their overall spend and commitment to UK carpet manufactured faltered.
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We are finishing our basement and plan on putting berber carpet down there. My husband and some friends are going to lay it themselves, but what is the best way to lay it around the basement poles??? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!