Birmingham and Bournemouth: Cricket and the Beach August 12-15, 2011As I prepared for another trip to my dream destination UK, all hell seemed to have broken loose over there. News poured in that riots had broken out in London and people are going bezerk. Updates from Londen-ers suggested that after a while everyone just wanted …
Switzerland: Twin trips back to Paradise Trip 1: Prague -> Zurich -> Engelberg (Mt Titlis) -> Geneva -> Zurich -> PragueParents are visiting us in Prague so after conquering Italy, it was time for a mandatory visit to the paradise of Europe – Switzerland. Being a tourist in Europe you certainly cannot afford to give …
Rome Rome as a city looked to be a ‘cousin’ of Delhi. First time in Europe I saw cars honking, buses not parking itself in the stop to pick up passengers opting instead to make the passengers run towards it. At places even pedestrians did not bother to check the signal before crossing. And of …
Venice and Pisa Approaching San Marco It seemed to be season for an Italian holiday for everyone as we entered the month of June. In successive weekends, two of our group of friends had already been there and many more groups were lined up for a grand ‘Roman Holiday’.My parents were here so there was …
Brighton Beach Being in the land-locked country of Czech Republic, it has been ages since we had been to a beach side. So the moment we fixed our plan of arriving at Gatwick and staying over at Burgess Hill, we figured out that the beachside town of Brighton is just a few stations away. The …
Paris: Basking in the Easter Sunshine Arc De Triumph Easter had arrived marking the first long weekend of the long summer ahead of us. Spring was slowly giving way to summer and the nature around us was turning to deeper shades of green. The long weekend is a huge luxury and soon the travel planners …
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 …
