The winter round of the Uttarakhand roadtrip started from Delhi. Our friends were waiting for us at the airport with the Mahindra’s XUV 500 we hired for the trip from Zoom Car. This time round, you see, we wanted to drive. A big car, it kept us, four adults and […]
Not without reason they say that Himalayas have a way of claiming your soul. You could stay in its foothills, or miles away from it, and yet be drawn to it as if bound by a spell. This, we discovered, when we drove through the hills of Uttarakhand in the […]
ITC Grand Chola in Chennai is one helluva massive and magnificent hotel. We were in Chennai for one night and a day, and frankly, found the time to be too short to enjoy all the frills we were entitled to at the Chola. We couldn’t even make it to the […]
Kalaripayattu is a 3000 year old martial arts that is said to have originated in South India. Kerala is considered to be a stronghold of this form of martial art. Naturally then, upon reading about the show in Munnar, we were excited and eager. Our hotel arranged the tickets for […]
A fishing village that the Portuguese took over in the 16th century, which then went to the Dutch in the 17th century only to change ownership once again, this time to British in the 18th century, Fort Kochi, without doubt, was an important region for trade in the pre-colonial and […]
Well, the disclaimer first. This is not an exhaustive list, since we have never been in Kochi long enough to dine at every good restaurant. But should you be there for a day or two, this list will certainly help you make up your mind if you too are a […]
Ah! How well prepared we go for this! Every time. Shopping. It’s with a missionaries’ zeal that we like to bring back local items, handicrafts, food items, every day things for the house or things for the garden from any new place, state or country. Upon finalising our Kerala roadtrip, […]
We had been on the houseboat cruise in Kerala’s famed backwaters before. That was in June 2007. We had set out from Kumarakom early one morning, docked for the night by a deserted strip of land, in the middle of almost nowhere, surrounded by water, reassured by the lapping of […]