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Wine, women and wanderlust

Caught up with a bunch of inter­est­ing women at Sum­i­tra Senapathy’s WOW get together on Sat­ur­day evening in town. I got there late after bat­tling heavy Ban­ga­lore traf­fic (okay, the usual!) but there was still quite a bit of wine left :)

I’ve writ­ten about WOW before so I won’t go into details again.

But if you’re inter­ested, her travel sched­ule in 2008 looks like this:
Feb: EGYPT
April: NEW ZEALAND & TURKEY

If you want more infor­ma­tion on WOW, you can call Sum­i­tra on 09891655054.

I met a lady called Poorvi who came up to me and said she had first come across WOW on my blog and that’s how she landed up going on a trip with them. Also caught up with Anu­radha, who’s quit work and look­ing rather happy right now! And a very spunky Radio City pro­ducer called Pooja (who said she’s read my blog once :-) who regaled us about her Sri Lanka trip in great detail and had us in splits!

The theme of the evening was pink and it was inter­est­ing to see almost every­one in some shade of pink or the other. Some came fully embell­ished with acces­sories in pink too look­ing really pretty! Unfor­tu­nately, I’m not a pink per­son and pos­sess all of one apparel in pink. So I man­aged a white kurta with some very “blink and you miss it” pink flow­ers! The best part was this pho­tog­ra­pher who landed up at around 930 when every­one was get­ting ready to dis­perse. Pg 3 he declared and was sur­prised that this party was get­ting over so early :)

All in all, a great fun evening and I wish I’d got­ten a lit­tle ear­lier. But next time!

Discussion

18 Responses to “Wine, women and wanderlust”

  1. Hey Anita
    good to see you at the WOW WINE do — yes, I too wish you had got there ear­lier, missed out on chat­ting with you!
    Anyways,WOW is plan­ning a Week­end get­away in Ban­ga­lore, so this time round, we’ll make sure you get there (late or early) and s t a y overnight!
    Cheers
    Sumitra

    Posted by sumitra | January 15, 2008, 9:12 pm
  2. thanks sum­i­tra! was great see­ing you too :) will def­i­nitely look for­ward to it!

    Posted by anita | January 21, 2008, 3:24 pm
  3. Hi Anita, I am look­ing fwd to join for Ladakh trip in August. If there are any get togeth­ers being arranged at Ban­ga­lore for WOW club, I would be very much inter­ested to join to know wow members.

    Posted by Geetha | April 25, 2008, 4:33 pm
  4. Am eagerly wait­ing to retire next year and hope to join your won­er­ful club of wan­der­ing women.
    (-: But are 60+ women welcome?

    And do you have get togeth­ers in Kolkata or Delhi? Would like participate.

    Posted by shobha basu | October 12, 2008, 7:23 pm
  5. Yes Shobha

    We have had wine evenings in Delhi, Ban­ga­lore and Mum­bai so far.

    Next on the cards is Chen­nai & Hyderabad.

    Cheers!

    Posted by Sumitra | March 28, 2009, 11:00 am
  6. Hey Girls

    WOW groups are a fun lov­ing combo of young, not-so-young and young at heart!!

    WOW is going places this year — Ladakh, China, Aus­tralia & a trek to Sikkim.

    Wine evening in B’lore will surely hap­pen this summer!

    Be Pink & Footloose!

    Posted by Sumitra | March 28, 2009, 11:06 am
  7. hi Ladies
    Am so excited theres a group of fun lov­ing women in Ban­ga­lore who love life and have itchy feet! I would love to join and may­hap­sto travel . Do count me in.
    Usha

    Posted by Usha Joseph | June 21, 2009, 6:39 pm
  8. Hel­low Ladies

    Just leartnt about WOW in 2days newz­pa­per & am really excited to join u guys.Am from Delhi.Pls do let me knw more bout WOW

    Cheers

    Posted by Joomka | August 29, 2009, 12:02 pm
  9. Hi,

    i read the arti­cle about WOW,in today’s times of india edi­tion. In India a club like this was required, keep it up Sum­i­tra. I am from Delhi, would like to attend a get-together in Delhi,kindly inform me as and when. I am an inde­pen­dent con­sul­tant with ORIFLAME SWEDISH COSMETICS, we have around 15 lakh women con­sul­tants around the globe. ORIFLAME has a wide range of prod­ucts for every­one. You can join as a mem­ber and build a strong net­work or even gift your clients with Ori­flame prod­ucts. Well, if you want a free cat­a­log and a sam­ple prod­uct, please sms me or write to me. I would surely join you guys later for trips. But, surely will pro­mote WOW.YOU can con­tact with me on my cell +91–9953100432.

    Cheers,Munmun

    Posted by Munmun Chatterjee | August 29, 2009, 7:25 pm
  10. Hi!
    I am from Mum­bai,
    I am inter­ested in join­ing the group. Please let me know your forth com­ing india & over­seas tour,

    Thanks

    Hema

    Posted by hema thacker | September 1, 2009, 9:35 am
  11. Dear Sum­i­tra,
    I have been envi­ously read­ing about WOW for some time now. Boo hoo — you guys don’t oper­ate in Delhi and its envi­rons. Met Shobha Mohan a few days back and both of us wowed about you!
    Are you plan­ning any­thing at all — this side of the Yamuna. I am a part time Tour Man­ager for Inbound tours. Would love an oppor­tu­nity to work with you — start a WOW fran­chise here in North India. Or have you done that already.

    Cheers
    Rachna

    Posted by Rachna Dushyant Singh | September 3, 2009, 11:42 am
  12. Hi

    I have been read­ing about WOW and Sum­i­tra on the web with fas­ci­na­tion. I am one of those ‘urban, well-off, sin­gle’ women and am keen to join the gang of girls at WOW. I have only just moved to Mum­bai and am look­ing for things to do on my week­ends. Is there some­thing hap­pen­ing in and around Mum­bai? I’d love to be a part of it.

    May WOW bloom and grow for­ever
    Bhuvana

    Posted by Bhuvana | October 28, 2009, 10:39 am
  13. HI WOW ians
    Nice to know that there are many shar­ing with me the same pas­sion to travel.Just let me know if some­thing is hap­pene­ing in Coim­bat­ore. A get-to-gether may be. I would also like to join on tours in future.

    Posted by umashree | February 5, 2010, 10:48 am
  14. hello ladies

    i heard about wow on in 2008. I guess read about it.
    I have some queries.

    i have a per­son and a friend in aus­tralia who man­ages my trav­els abroad.
    ususally its with my hus­band.
    but i read the blog and the pics and this surely seems to be a great option. to travel with women. I would love a change.

    i have some queries:
    Would you be kind enough to answer them for my satisfaction?

    1. do you have a place in Ahmed­abad and in kolkata where i can meet up with friends? I am mar­ried in kolkata and need some good lady friends.

    2. i under­stand that we are all included in an all women group. so is it so that we always have to stick to the group. is every thing a group activ­ity? Or can we take out a short time off for a sin­gle activ­ity, like shop, adven­ture or meet up with a friend and return to the safety of the group?

    3. do we know before hand who our group mem­bers are going to be?

    4. Can i also devi­ate some­times from the iti­ne­nary miss?

    look­ing for­ward to answers

    Regards
    janaki

    Posted by Janaki Rathod | February 17, 2010, 10:42 pm
  15. Hi,
    I was just brows­ing through your web­site and I got really interested.I am a teacher from Kolkata.Do you have a WOW group oper­at­ing from Kolkata? Or you know of women from this city keen to join Wow?It will be nice if we could get together and plan some­thing.
    Do write back and let me know.In the mean­time happy travelling!

    Posted by sumana basu | May 28, 2010, 7:59 pm
  16. Hey Sum­i­tra

    I just got to know of the WOW group while i was brows­ing the met . And i a ma so thrilled . I an a sin­gle work­ing woman and i luv vis­it­ing places . Trav­el­ling and sight seeimg is my boggest pas­sion but sadly i really do not finf friends who have the time to join me. Would like to be a meme­ber of wow and try to ful­fill my dteams.. I stay at Kochi, ker­ala and do let me know if any trips are planned in South India

    Posted by Rati | April 9, 2011, 10:18 pm
  17. ladies, if you want sum­i­tra to answer your queries please do write to her directly!

    her email ID: me@wowsumitra.com

    Posted by anita | April 10, 2011, 12:27 pm
  18. Hi, I am from Kolkata. its really nice to see such meeta ups. is there any­thing in kolkata?

    Posted by Rituparna | September 14, 2011, 10:43 am

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