Despite the rather lofty post title, don’t expect anything radical here, it’s just some random notes from my recent journey to India. I was there for five weeks. Its seems so long, doesn’t it? Well, it had been over two years since I set foot in the country that issued me my passport and I …
A miscommunication in my taxi reservation. Twenty minutes of delay for them to get me a new cab to the airport, while I am all packed up and waiting at the lobby of my hotel, just off St. James’s park. Laptop is shut down, with a run-down battery and a charger packed away in the …
I finally get down to part 3. You can find parts 1 and 2 here and here. It turned out to be a good idea that we had kept the museum visits for day 3 – because for once, the CNN weather reports were right and Saturday turned out to be a rainy and rather …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …