This is amusing. When we were drawing up our itinerary for our holiday in Austria this May, I did an image search on Google with the phrase, ‘beautiful Austria’. The laptop screen was instantly taken over by photos of verdant hills, wild flowers, a lake, a church’s tower overlooking the […]
Pondicherry, or to be politically correct, Puducherry, is a beach town in the east coast of India. Not big enough to be a state, but distinct enough to have its own identity, Pondicherry is a Union Territory of India. Long known for being a settlement of the Dutch, Portuguese, English […]
The heavy and late lunch at Carnivore (Read: Review of Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi) almost got the better of us on Day One of our Kenya tour. We wanted to go to the hotel and sleep. The jet lag was still strong and hovering around. But then, the Bomas of […]
Still little before rush hour, it took us just about 20 minutes to reach our hotel in Nairobi city from the airport (Read: Procedures at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi). Check in at the Hotel Serena was swift, and after quickly dumping our bags in our room and a […]
It is funny how we craned our necks towards the aircraft window as soon as we landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. We had expected to see giraffes and lions and elephants immediately upon landing, you see….haha… We controlled our excitement admonishing ourselves that nothing before immigration […]
Hardcore foodies have been witnessing a welcome addition to their list of ‘eateries’ in Mumbai. You would be forgiven if you were to think that I am talking about another restaurant. No, another joint has not opened up in our already spoilt-for-choice city. It’s another ‘door’ that has opened to […]
And so, post this heavy lunch at White Rock Bistro in Gisenyi (read review of White Rock Bistro), we came back to our hotel at around 5 pm, hoping that by now our rooms should be ready. They were. We rushed for the beds and a nap. Apparently one of […]
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 […]