Viennese Memories 2

This is the second of the series. The first part is here.
Schönbrunn Palace
Early on Friday morning, we headed off to the Schönbrunn palace. We were planning to spend only a couple of hours there, but the palace was so impressive and the palace grounds so huge and beautiful, it was nearly 2pm by the time [...]

The white tears of the rubber tree

The Kerala Tourism board is slowly opening up its beautiful rubber plantations to eco-tourists. The quiet, thick rubber plantations, the tappers who toil almost camouflaged among the trees and even the queer smell of the drying rubber sheets are part and parcel of Kerala’s evergreen beauty. If you are ever in God’s own country, do [...]

Viennese Memories 1

I finally got around to editing my travel notes about Vienna and putting it into a more readable format. Here is the first of a three part series.
Srijith and I started on our journey on a Wednesday evening. After a rather uncomfortable flight (Austrian airways is the only non-budget airline I know where they charge [...]

Am back!

I am back - back home. Its nice to feel my own bed, drink my home-made coffee and shower at my leisure in my warm shower. Also waiting for me is a whole bag of unopened mail, most of which are in German, which means I have a long date with my dictionary and the [...]

Espanol, Aquí vengo!

Spain, Here I come!
I leave for my much-awaited vacation in Spain and Portugal ( just dint how to say ‘here I come’ in Portugese) in an hour’s time. The itinery reads something like Düsseldorf -> Amsterdam -> Barcelona -> Zaragoza -> Torla -> Madrid -> Granada -> Cordoba -> Seville -> Lisbon and then [...]

Wien The Wonderful

The long weekend is over and I am back from Vienna =(Heres my top5 list of things you dont want to miss if you are in Vienna:
- Stroll through the impressive Shönbrunn palace grounds. The palace is impressive - it truly reflects the power of the old Habsburg empire that ruled a large part of [...]

Wien The Wise

Some snippets that caught my fancy at Vienna
“Our real illiteracy is in our inability to create”- Hundertwasser, Viennese Painter and Architect (from the walls of the art house, Kunsthauswien)
“One must work till he falls asleep out of exhaustion- Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (part of the audio commentary at the Shoenbrunn [...]

Wien The Weird

Why one should wear heels

Nike “sponsored” Mona Lisa

Dog Feeding - What it leads to

Discovering Düsseldorf - Part I

The first in a series of posts about Düsseldorf
Rhein promenade
The Rhine Promenade is really what I love the best about Düsseldorf. A stroll along the Promenade on a weekend or even a weekday evening, is probably the best introduction to life in Düsseldorf. A favourite hangout for locals as well as tourists, the Rhine promenade [...]

Heres to new beginnings!

After a very hectic week, followed by a fabulous weekend with no access to Internet, I am back. It feels like its been such a long time..
..may be because it is spring now. The winter is finally over and after a few days of hovering between both sides of 0 C, we are now [...]