Bruges in 1 day

On popular demand – this is my post on what to do if you have just 1 day in Bruges. One line answer- Just walk around in this fairyland with a decent camera and enjoy beer, local chocolate and fries.          My recommendations:  Do taste the local beers at restaurants and breweries but…

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Travel Diary: Paris Day 4 (in Retrospection) 

Day 4 in Paris was our last day and we had a lot to cover especially since we could not do much on day 3. We started day 2 at Arc de Triomph and continued waking around Paris till late afternoon. On our way we came across Champs Elysees (where we picked amazing bakery breakfast),…

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Travel Diary: Bruges

Today morning we took a train from Paris to Bruges and were here in the romantic town by 10:00 am. We had the whole day to take in the beauty of this enchanting town and enjoy their delicious beers and chocolates.       We started with a casual walk to the city center and when…

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Travel Diary: Paris Day 3

Our plan for day 3 was pretty exhaustive. But the places we visited were so great that we couldn’t rush through and we could complete only 2 out of 7-8 major attractions. We started with Louvre and saw about 1/3rd of the major attractions in about 3 hours. The museum is huge and the collection…

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Travel Diary: Paris Day 1

After spending 2 days in somewhat warm sunshine in Nice, I am back in the cold European weather again. This morning we took a flight from Nice to Paris. While I plan to write about my visit to Nice a little later, I would certainly like to tell you about my first day in Paris….

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Travel Diary: Switzerland Day 4

Today is our last day in Switzerland, before we leave for Nice tomorrow morning. This short stay in Switzerland has been spectacular and I am happy to tell you about today as well.  The original plan for today was to stay in Luzern and explore Mt. Pilatus. However as April is not the main season…

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Travel Diary: Switzerland Day 3

Today we went all the way to the ‘Top of Europe’. Jungfraujoch is known as the highest peak in Europe. We spent our all day today in traveling from Luzern to Jungfraujoch and back. The way to Jungfraujoch was quite long and honestly really tiring. There was some rail construction work going on… So we…

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Travel Diary: Switzerland Day 2

Our second day in Luzern was blessed with extremely good weather. The sun shone on us all day and we had a great time indeed. We started the day with breakfast from a small take-away cafe from Luzern train station and boarded a train to Engelberg. The view from the train to Engelberg was obviously…

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Travel Diary: Switzerland Day 1

After months of working really really hard we finally began our holiday today! A group of 4 friends from Mumbai. We landed in Zurich this morning.. after 2 flights and a pretty long stopover in Abu Dhabi. That’s Abu Dhabi from the sky By the way. So..we landed in Zurich, stored our baggage at a…

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Childhood

Childhood is a special time in everybody’s life.Mine was special too! It was a time when.. Life was about spending time with the people who mattered Mornings were about waking up to the divine smell of city bakery’s brun pav Summer was about spending time with grandma and her maids Diwali was about bursting crackers…

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A dog is a miracle with paws!

This is a story of my husband R and his little friend Cherry. From ‘”I will not sit in the same room as the new dog” to “you guys carry on, I’ll hang out with Cherry”.                           How a pet can change your life.. 🙂