“Not all those who wander are lost.” How true!! After a day-long tour in the Golden Pass Panoramic train, we disembarked at Montreux – Switzerland’s very own Riviera. We were famished and a quick lunch at one of the many outside restaurants gave us back our energy — we strolled along the […]
Birds watching and Birds clicking is both a passion and a therapy for me. And this is what i probably like most about hill stations — the leisure to go in search of myriad hued winged beauties. And although not a morning person at all, for them, i am willing to […]
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, […]