After window-shopping at Phoenix Palladium mall followed by some skyscraper-gazing yesterday, I had to check out of Pals Hotel and head to Navi Mumbai.
Breakfast was better today — egg burji, buns, and some corn flakes. Enough to fill me up.
I checked out and booked an Uber to take me across the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link a.k.a Atal Setu.
I took an Uber to Ulwe because I figured that’s the best route to ensure the driver takes the Atal Setu
Because to get to where my hotel was in Navi Mumbai, the driver didn’t have to take the expressway
I purposely chose to go to Ulwe just to take a ride on the brand new expressway.
It cost me ₹629.93 for the Uber ride, but that included the cost of the toll
At 21.8 km, the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) is the longest sea bridge in India, and the world’s 12th longest sea bridge. It’s the fastest route connecting Mumbai with Navi Mumbai (Navi = new). The ₹17,843 crore ($2.1 billion) was 80% funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The lead contractors were Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Japan’s construction major IHI Corporation.
As a fan of Coldplay since A Rush of Blood to the Head, seeing them live has been a bucket-list item for well over 15 years. Heck, back in 2011 I even went to see a tribute band play in UB City. X&Y (my favourite Coldplay album) had the stadium anthem “Fix You” and Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends had its stadium anthem with “Viva La Vida”. But we’re now in the era where a “Sky Full of Stars” going viral on social media alone has marketed Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres concert series better than ever before, and introduced the 25-year-old British band to a new stadium anthem.
The album Music of the Spheres was released 2 years ago — Coldplay’s first album produced by my all-time favourite music producer — Max Martin. But the popularity of the concert has made Coldplay continue to tour for so long that it is now, officially, the most attended tour of all time and the second highest grossing tour of all time (first is Taylor Swift’s Eras tour)!
I won’t go into the ticketing headache that was the BookMyShow experience, so I will just talk about the Coldplay experience.
I wanted to get inside the venue early so as to avoid last minute rushes.
I had a hearty lunch before leaving for DY Patil Stadium
From my hotel, I then walked to Turbhe railway station.
