Toronto Snapshots, Canada
We were in Toronto, on our first trip to Canada, almost exactly a year ago. In the meanwhile some of the snaps have understandably turned sepia, or black and white. …
Toronto Snapshots, Canada Read MorePause. Reflect. Savour. Refresh. Live. Slow.
We were in Toronto, on our first trip to Canada, almost exactly a year ago. In the meanwhile some of the snaps have understandably turned sepia, or black and white. …
Toronto Snapshots, Canada Read MoreIt is my recollection that the gripping story of the city of Pompeii and its destruction, was part of my English syllabus in the 3rd Standard. While I generally tend …
Pompeii and Vesuvius, Italy Read MoreLong before I walked into the current city of Rome, I had peered into the ancient city of Rome during the glorious Roman empire. My vehicle of time-travel was the …
Postcards from Rome.. Read MoreThere were quite a few work trips in quick succession earlier in the year, and the trip in June to the small town of Kundl in Austria was one of …
Tirol Region, Austria Read MoreThe last stop of my Croatia trip with Mum and Dad in May this year was the little island of Korcula. It is another true island of slow living, which …
Croatia Once More (III): Korcula, the sweetheart! Read MoreDubrovnik was the second island of our trip, and also our longest stay of all. Dubrovnik is among the most (if not the most) popular tourist destinations in Croatia, its …
Croatia Once More (II): Dubrovnik Read MoreTwo years back, we had planned a trip through Amsterdam and Croatia with my parents, and they were at the last moment unable to make it due to some extenuating circumstances. …
Croatia Once More (I): Split & Hvar Read MoreI am not much a bucket-list traveler. But in the little “If I had to have a bucket list, what would I put on it” list, Seville had been high …
Splendid Seville! Read MoreWe always find Spanish cities to be charming, vibrant and neat, and of these, the Palma city of Mallorca island is now officially top of the list. For one, it …
Palma de Mallorca, Spain Read MoreIt was early November and autumn was all but gone. Along with friends, we wanted to make a final dash to still capture the colours. So we went to Wasserfallen. As …
Gorgeous Wasserfallen this Autumn Read MoreIt was Barcelona this year for our customary October break. And with family over, the highlight was late night conversations, music sessions and cooking together. The city provided a beautiful …
Barcelona, Spain Read MoreThis is one place my husband has been wanting us to go for years now. He’s been wanting to hike up the Gornergrat, to a face to face rendezvous with …
Zermatt, Switzerland Read MoreHello stranger! From all who have been here Now.. and since countless years The wind and the sun The sky and the ocean And you are here today Pause before …
Bol, Croatia Read MoreSo, it happens something like this..On the train to Venice, I am reading this book called ‘The Places that Scare You’- which essentially implores one to sit face to face …
Venice, Italy Read MoreMost people hear of Verona in the context of the tale of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. These two protagonists of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy belonged to rival families from Verona. It seems …
Verona, Italy Read MoreThough we were not hiking up the mountain, it was still a very uphill task getting to the top, and even more painful (as in life) to come down. There was …
Mount Teide: Tenerife (Spain) III Read MoreA large and lovely part of our long-awaited trip to Tenerife consisted of a persistent pursuit of nothing. There was a large chunk of this: and this.. walks along the …
Tenerife(Spain) Part I: Of Aimless Wandering Read MoreI did not have any expectations: it was supposed to be a business meeting, the weather was getting progressively colder, I was jet-lagged (having returned from India a day before).. …
Bad Säckingen: A small station in Germany Read MoreAutumn is setting in, infusing shades of red and yellow into the greens, and the misty smell of dried leaves in the air. On a warm enough day at this time, it …
Hiking up Mount Rigi, Switzerland Read MoreThis has taken long to get around to doing… perhaps because it seemed that words would be either inadequate, inaccurate or misleading…Pictures, though, will be only inadequate.
Lake Constance and the Island of Flowers Read MoreIt was among the hottest days this summer when we went to Strasbourg. I had studied how to reach, what to see, where to eat etc. I read up blogs …
A Summer Day in Strasbourg, France Read More