Pictures and visuals of the River Seine bursting its banks and inundating the streets of Paris grabbed my attention earlier this year. News reports indicated that mercifully the rains had stopped short of another disaster, evoking memories of the floods of 1910.…
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It was with a feeling of great relief that we looked at the signboard that glowed in the night. The signboard read HOTEL EUROPA. We had had a harrowing experience in the morning which bordered on the agony and later had some ecstatic moments in Florence.…
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We ran like hell, our backpacks bobbing, frantically wheeling our strolleys, but alas! we watched the train moving away, just as we reached the platform.
“There goes our 60 Euros! and my planned itinerary”, I cursed myself.…
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Travelling along on the freeway called life; some journeys leave an indelible mark on our minds and hearts and they remain evergreen in our memories. They reside deep in the recesses of the mind and it takes just a glimpse of a photo or the sound of some words to bring these memories to life in front of the mind’s eye. …
Top of Europe – Jungfraujoch, A Must See in Switzerland Read More »
“Where are all the people?” I thought, as I walked across the lush green park.
It was the beginning of winter and there was a nip in the air, a light mist hovered benignly above me as I walked along a cobbled pathway that cut right through a huge park and connected two parallel roads.…
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A city which once echoed to the footsteps of one of the world’s most renowned Astronomer and Physicist, Galileo.
A city which is home to a university dating back to the 12th century. A 185 feet tower which is famous for not standing erect!…
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We were nearing the end of a dream, 4 weeks in Switzerland, and were scheduled to take a train to Venice in the evening. So to make the most of our stay in this fairyland, we took an early morning train to Lucerne to spend a few hours there and then move on to Venice.…
Lucerne: A Magical Morning Walk in Misty Lucerne, Switzerland Read More »
We had landed in Istanbul in the morning and then taken a domestic flight which had brought us to Goreme, a town located in the famed Cappadocia region of Turkey. The town is spectacularly located among the “Fairy Chimney”, rock formations.…
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One fateful day in the school bus a boy disdainfully looks at a girl he has hated all these years. Their eyes meet and suddenly in a fraction of a second everything changes. A strange chemical reaction gets triggered and hate turns into love, first love!…
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Europe has endeared itself to us with its charm and elegance whenever we have had the opportunity of travelling there. We have always been bowled over by its natural beauty and old world charm which has a dreamlike quality.…
Train Travel in Europe – An unforgettable experience Read More »