Soon after starting off with WheelsOnOurFeet in March this year, I had written a post on My Favourite Places in Shillong. This post has gone on to be one of my most popular posts. While the number of hits on this post makes me very happy, it also made me think – […]
Had read fantastic reviews of Café Bahar in Hyderabad and couldn’t resist going here. Colleagues from office too recommended it, saying it’s the 2nd best joint in Hyderabad for biryanis (most consider Shadab to be the best!) Cafe Bahar has 2 restaurants and I opted for the original one at […]
Ah the famous Aiguille Du Midi! Let me start at the start. You need to take the cable car from Chamonix City for Aiguille Du Midi – the famous mountain in the French Alps from where you not only see the famous Mont Blanc, but also the Alps of the […]
Chamonix would not be in the ‘traditional’ European itinerary for most travellers from India – especially in winters. For, it can get really cold there, snowed out and frozen to the bones!! Had the opportunity to visit Chamonix in Feb 2011 for an offsite meeting and wow, was I bowled […]
We zeroed on in staying at Hansar during our short 3 days stay at Bangkok after reading the fantastic reviews about the hotel. Staying @Hansar: The first sight was a quite disappointing – looked like a very small hotel, darkly lit, a very business-like lobby – quite a bit of […]
We were a little sceptical about going to Siam Niramit, for we feared a tourist trap in the name of Thai culture extravaganza. But thankfully, our fears were ill-founded. A short drive from the city-center in Bangkok, gets you to the venue. They have made it like a small Thai […]
A small little town Coorg is, but offers quite a bit of options for both tourists and seekers of quietude. We try to balance both and here’s what all we saw and experienced in the three days that we were there: Playing with elephants at the Dubare Elephant Camp: We […]
This May, we were in London for 2 days and 2 nights. Now, 2 days and 2 nights is abysmally less for a city like London about which one has read so much; the city that has been so eulogised in books and poems, the city that has one of […]