Twice in the past people who googled my hobbies have met me in Mangalore.

Meeting in real life. Mr Krishnanand Pai from Mumbai, who is my father's cousin's husband, contacted me and later met me when he googled Indian coins in 2006.

Meeting in real life. II Mr Ajit Laxmirathan from Bangalore, after googling Indian currency notes.

And so it was for a third time yesterday and day before. Mr Kumar Biswar had contacted me regarding my Antarctic Covers post I had made for the Stamps of India newsletter which is e-mailed frequently. [Readers letters are un-failingly published.] Reading this Kumar e-mailed me last July as to the address to were the covers are to me posted. His was BTW the only response for the Antarctic covers letter. And then in May this year he replied saying he had received it back with the cancellations and everything.

Then surprisingly he e-mailed once again saying he would be in Mangalore [for a visit to Manipal] this month and if we could meet, I agreed. He arrived in Mangalore day before yesterday, he had come for the admission of his son to Manipal Institute of Technology [where I studied 25 years ago] We met in my office where we went through my stamp collection, spoke about his collection and I dropped him back at his hotel.

Yesterday evening we went out for dinner when he mentioned that when he first e-mailed me regarding the covers he never thought he would be heading towards Mangalore any time soon;-) Now it looks he will here more often than not.

So now all three hobbies have been covered, coins, notes and now stamps:-) Next on the line I suppose will be scale model cars, and comic books. Heh! Heh! Heh!