Category: vacations


  • Italy

    Read previous posts here (Brussels), here (Brugge), here (Amsterdam) and here (Cologne). Pre-script – words and picture heavy post. Our tent was on the far right notin this picture. We camped below this rock mountain! After an eventful week in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany and recovering from an unwanted twist of turns, we were kind…

  • Read previous parts here, here and here.Cologne (or Koln. Very interesting stories about how it got the name btw) was the next pit stop in my journey. Owing to our super health status, we reached there 2 days earlier than planned. As soon as our bus made its final stop, we got down only to…

  • Part 1Part 2Part 3So we reached Amsterdam unwell, exhausted and unable to think straight. After getting to the city center from our bus stop (20 minutes ride), we were again back on our foot. Lugging those backpacks and the stroller. Without any physical or mobile maps to help us, we started searching for the hostel…

  • Part 1 and Part 2 in case you are interested.‘Maybe that’s what hell is, the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges.’ – Stupid grumpy Ray from In Bruges (the movie).Of course, for me replace hell by a good idea of heaven, please! I am like the good old romantic Ken from the movie…

  • Post 1 about how and why my Europe trip happenedI need to report some drama that happened with us on the journey to Brussels.So we left for Mumbai on 19th afternoon. I had a super important work meeting on the 19th evening where I was supposed to give a presentation (My official vacation was going…

  • ‘Europe is always a good idea’.Let me begin at the beginning. I have been traveling to the US a lot for work, over the past one year. Paglet moved to Germany last year. Travel planners that she and her husband (N) are, they immediately started asking me to do stopovers in Germany during my trips.…

  • I am not a traveler. I mean I travel in a literal sense a lot i.e. going from one place to other. But I am not much into elaborate vacation planning. I like exploring new places only on the condition that the place is there in front of me to be explored. I’ll not move…

  • Travelling to Kashmir has been one of my childhood dreams. It came true in an unexpected fashion last week.After the quite epic and never ending #anshitanukulkishaadi in Jammu, we headed to Kashmir. The wedding and kashmir culture merits a super long post of its own. And I think the beauty of kashmir and its description…

  • Showing up

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    Today I felt like showing up here, so a picture post for things on my mind for the past few days. Idyllic! Perfect even!here My home is going to have this movie-watching-heaven attic!here It’s easier to recreate the fairy-tale like spaces for day dreaming 🙂here Wish you all a merry Christmas and a grand year…

  • a 26 year old’s advanced birthday gift to a 30 year old Of course, Aai and KT think, we should give more age appropriate gifts. But then bro insisted and crossword was giving a 20% discount. Who would let go of a bargain on a gift ? 😛Since then weekends, train travels have been scrabble-ed! And…