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 […]
Do you think Mumbai is all glitz and pots of money when it comes to buying furniture for your house? Hey NO!!! Drive up to Bangur Nagar in Goregaon West to buy furniture of your choice and within your budget!! Forget the glitzy furniture stores in Lower Parel, or the […]
Kankalitala is just about half an hour’s drive from Mitali’s Bugalow, where we stayed in Shantiniketan. Being a staunch non-believer, Jayant wasn’t very keen to visit Kankalitala though. But I insisted since a friend in Kolkata had earnestly suggested that we go there to offer prayers. And reasoned that the […]
The thug-menace is bad in Bangkok. We encountered them twice, and narrowly escaped on both the occasions. Thugs @Siam Square in Bangkok: Our hotel was Hansar at Rajdamri Road and we had taken the Skytrain upto the BTS station. Once out of the station, as we strolled the sidewalks checking out the […]