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A WALK IN THE HILLS Sweet corn roasting over an open coal fire slathered with melting butter and sea salt,  the silky taste of rich chocolate walnut fudge, crisp crushed peanut chikki, pleasant cool winds, rolling hills, icy cold showers of rain, traffic snarls on a Sunday, WHERE WERE WE ? !!!  We were at LONAVALA. The hubby and I were due for a long awaited complimentary welcome holiday from Sterling Holidays Resorts Ltd.  After hemming and hawing for months together, we decided to take the well earned break during the first week of September. It was not the ideal month to travel to Lonavala but our dates were running out. Since it was going to be a short weekend break for 2 nights / 3 days, I zeroed onto Hotel Mayur Sterling, 3 kms from the main town area. It’s a lovely hotel located between Khandala and Lonavala’s market area. Lonavala is a popular hill station beautifully located amongst the hills and valleys of the Sahyadri range in Maharashtra, India, about