The Bengal Tiger is what everybody comes to see at the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. But, how many gets to see it is the million dollar question!! I haven’t met anybody in a long time whose Corbett visit had a successful Tiger sighting. Why? What ails Tiger Sightings @Jim […]
We were booked at the Solluna Resort during our trip to Corbett National Park. Compared to most other hotels that are closer to the Gates from where you enter the Reserve, the Solluna Resort is at Merchula – about 45-minutes’ drive away, past a narrow one-lane road that is non-existent […]
Were you born with a sweet tooth? Or did you bounce into it sometime in the course of growing up, growing old? In my case, I got ‘bit’ by it during my pregnancy. Don’t remember being too crazy about sweets before that. And, it stayed. In a big big way. […]
Hotel Piazza Bellini is right on Piazza Bellini in Napoli. Doesn’t take much brains to figure that out, does it? Where is Hotel Piazza Bellini in Naples? We were arriving from Florence and got off at Cavour Station, the halt for Napoli. The hotel was quite near the station and […]
The canals in Venice are everywhere and inevitable. And so, booking a room in Venice was easy. One near one of the canals! We booked Hotel American Dinesen for our 2-day stay there. How is the room @Hotel American Dinesen in Venice, Italy? It was a lovely room in the […]
Or, shall I say – When we wanted to lose ourselves in a village in Shantiniketan? On our way to Kankalitala, we crossed this beautiful village that had children swimming and fishing in a pond on one side and seemingly endless rice fields on the other. We asked our driver, […]
It is the onset of spring in North India and what better place time to travel to the jungles & hills of Uttarakhand for an offsite? But wait till I tell you about the famous, nay, infamous roads and the terrible drive from Delhi to Jim Corbett! Drive from Gurgaon […]
For that ‘completetly Goa’ feel, stay in a house in Goa!! Yup!! Resorts and hotels are same all over the world. Once inside, you wouldn’t know whether you are in Phuket or Goa or Hurghada!!And so we opted for a house that functioned like a hotel the second time we […]