Multiple Multiples!
From the sacred to the mundane……a multitude of multiples from my travels. Did I go a bit overboard there? Guess I did! Just couldn’t stop with one….or ten for that matter.
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TRAVEL SNIPPETS
Bite-sized travel content from across the globe.
2012 – My Year In Pictures!
A flashback gallery with one random image from the archives for each month of the past year. Just to set things straight, we only visited Japan, Laos and Cambodia in 2012. The rest are stories from our travels over the past few years. I look forward to the pleasure of your company on another year of travel […]
Read MoreCalling On Zeus
I am down to the last alphabet of my A-Z challenge and I can’t think of a place to take you to, whose name starts with Z! Zurich is a dim memory with no images to give it a boost. Zanzibar still a distant dream. So I decided to go calling on the God of […]
Read MoreThe Mansions On The Bosphorus
Y is for Yali. No, not that mythical creature from Hindu mythology, but the gorgeous waterfront mansions lining the banks of the Bosphorus! Derived from the Greek Yialos, meaning seashore, these 17th century mansions whose architectural styles can only be termed ‘eclectic’ were intended as summer abodes for the Turkish bourgeoisie, whose numbers swelled with the extension of the Ottoman […]
Read MoreShinjuku By Night & Au Revoir
As some of you already know, I am off again, this time with R to Laos & Cambodia for two weeks. That is misleading actually. R was very sure he didn’t want an in depth cultural immersion, so we are only going to Luang Prabang and Siem Reap, with brief stopovers in Vientiane and Phnom […]
Read MoreMidori Days
I can’t seem to get Japan out of my head! Here’s a green, green gallery from the land of the rising sun: Thank you for visiting and have a great weekend.
Read MoreAs Know As Pinky!!!
I was determined to post something today. Even if I could only manage to lift my head up long enough to click ‘publish’. Battling a nasty virus, stuffy nose, swollen throat, fever, et al. And the grey, gloomy, drippy weather isn’t helping any. Seems like only the other day that we were pining for rain…..for a […]
Read MoreSayonara!
First off, I apologise for my tardiness in visiting your blogs and responding to your generous comments. My excuse? The never ending demands of the Indian extended family. And finishing touches to my upcoming trip to Japan. I leave tomorrow – early day after actually – and shall not be posting anything new for a couple of […]
Read MoreThe City Of Victory
If we had come here first, like everyone else looking to explore the romance of Rajputana, maybe, just maybe, we would have liked Jaipur better. But as it is, we came here from Jodhpur, and Udaipur before that, and we perceived a more jarring urban version of the famed Rajput culture and hospitality. We missed the […]
Read MoreFree Spirit
“I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.” ~ Alice Walker Thank you for visiting and have a great weekend.
Read MoreMeteora – Columns Of The Sky
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” ~ Robert Browning Perched precariously atop the pinnacles of steep sandstone cliffs, resembling lofty aeries of some giant predatory birds, the monasteries of Meteora beggar belief! Built in the 14th century to escape persecution by the invading Ottomans, with no access save baskets […]
Read MoreA Shimmery Sunset & Thoughts Of Home
Watching the sun slip quietly behind the trees in this beach resort we have escaped to for R’s birthday (and our anniversary), it seems like an anticlimax to not have the sea reflect the explosion of copper and gold that is so typical of a spectacular west coast sunset. I realise now, how much I […]
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The Urge To Wander 