Travel Diary.

1. A long car journey after a long time. Was quite excited by it. Heavily armed myself with lots of music, a big fat book that had to be squeezed to fit into the handbag, water bottles, snacks and was the first one to jump into the car. Occupied the last seat by the window [...]

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H.O.M.E

(Planning to migrate a few posts here, from my older blog(which i had to close down due to ‘edhir katchigalin thittamitta sadhi ‘). These are the ones I think are worth migrating, atleast so that I can read them whenever I want to without logging in, giving passwords, etc. This post was written exactly a [...]

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Euro Trip Part IV – Of Gondolas, Glass and Crystals :)

Day 4: Venice The Paradise called Venice. The land of Gondolas, Glass and Water. Not necessarily in that order. My first glimpse of Venice was ethereal to say the least. Buildings painted colourfully in red, yellow, green and pink shades against the backdrop of mighty large sheets of water. Large Gondolas standing proud, side by [...]

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Euro Trip Part III – Art struck!!

Day 3: Pisa, Florence Before beginning the rewind across day 3 I must tell you how difficult it was for us to spend foreign currency for the first few days. Especially currency that had like approximately 65 times more value than Indian money. Yeah the Euro stood at 67 Rupees whereas the Pound was at [...]

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Euro Trip Part II – Rome was not built in a day!

Day 1: Rome One thing I really hate about non Indians is that they don’t wash after they pee. Ok, I’m starting this post on a disgusting note but I was equally disgusted with all those hotels I stayed at. None of them have running water provisions required by all Indians to maintain basic sanitary [...]

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Euro Trip Part 1 – The Road to Rome

So there I’m back. Back without a bang. Back with back ache from 14 hours of air travel, back with jetlag from being in three different time zones in a single day, back with chronic sleep deprivation . but back with a ton full of memories and 4 GB of photographs. Back from Europe!!!!!! So [...]

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The Food Bond

The other day I was at Ratna Café, a quaint little restaurant with a formidable reputation for the best idli-sambhar in all of Chennai. I’ve never been there before and as I entered the waft of fragrant sambhar hit me hard. Taking a corner seat, I looked around to see about 30 people eating there [...]

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