Paris: A Long Weekend in the City of Lights Paris is one of those cities where even a few days can feel too short. On our Easter weekend trip, we had just about two-and-a-half days to explore the city, so we focused on the major landmarks, Disneyland Paris and a few neighbourhoods rather than attempting …
Keukenhof: Walking through the Tulips Two generations of Indians have grown up listening to the iconic song from Yash Chopra’s Silsila shot in the beautiful Tulip Gardens of Keukenhof near Amsterdam. The sight of Amitabh Bachhan running on the tulip fields and romancing Rekha is part of filmy folklore now. As we set into spring, …
Continued from Part I Day 2 We woke up to a wonderful sunny morning in Kent. The river was glowing with bright rays of the sun which from inside the heated room would make one think of a premature arrival of summer. It was hard to believe that just two weeks back, even the airports …
Tower Bridge I landed in Central Europe in June 2009. It took a year (thanks to visa restrictions) to “pierce” the iron curtain and visit West Europe (Brussels, Amsterdam and Switzerland) and a further 6 months more to move across to the other side of the channel. Crossing the channel holds special significance for us …
Budapest: Back Where it All Began My travel across Europe turned a full circle as we set-off for Budapest on New Year’s Day 2011. It was here in July 2009 that it all began. While then there was the added incentive to watch F1 cars zooming past, this time it was purely a leisure trip …
Slovakia: A High at the Tatra The mountains beckoned me again. After the great trip of Ladakh, I set my next target as the High Tatras Mountains of Slovakia. It was one of the most prominent mountain ranges of Eastern Europe and is often referred to as the Alps of the east.An added incentive was …
Ladakh: How To Do In 4 Days Being a mountain-freak, the one place in India we always wanted to visit, was Ladakh. The legendary Indus river, the picturesque Pangong Tso lake, the vast mountains, the desert-look, it was all very intriguing and a visual delight. Being a highly sought after destination post the depiction of …
Switzerland: Another Day in Paradise It is another weekend, another trip. This completes the hat-trick of weekend trips ever since we landed in Prague. Our “Europe trilogy” for the summer of 2010 was completed with the best of them all, the dream destination for many – Switzerland. This one was not going to be a …
Amsterdam: Going Dutch We boarded the evening 5:15 PM Easyjet flight from Prague to Amsterdam on Friday. We landed at the legendary Schiphol airport at around 7 PM. We were immediately awestruck by the atmosphere and did not feel like leaving the place to head for the city. Once the feeling sank in, better sense …
It was an F1 weekend at Belgium and we are still in middle of a beautiful summer. We arrived from India for a long stint at Prague and were all charged up for some weekend travel across Europe. So what better option for the weekend than Brussels? Enjoy the F1 carnival at a legendary race …
Hungary: Hungaroring F1 and Budapest Finally it was one of the moments I have been looking forward to – July 24-25, the F1 weekend at the Hungaroring Budapest. As soon as my Shengen Visa got stamped, I had one eye on the calendar for this particular weekend. Budapest is just 7 hours from Prague by …
Over to work now – Raiffeisen Bank looked to quite prominent in the region. Last time I was in transit in Vienna airport, almost all the aerobridges out there endorsed the yellow R-Bank label. And over here within a radius of 100m from our hotel, I could spot that yellow board no less than five …
