Discovering Kerala in Phnom Penh

I have a perpetual case of fernweh - ever encountered this word? It's Germanic in origin and it means wanderlust. Why do I wander? I wander in search of what makes them different from us, where do the them and us merge - or do they ever? I think I have travelled to about 24 countries...

Art in Hoi An: The budget bargains

Everyone loves some good art - some like it classic and monochrome while others like me, well I love kitsch and colours and all things bright and beautiful! My home has never been monochrome, its filled with colours for they speak to me! So for a person like me, discovering Hoi An was like someone...

People Watching in Old Town, Hoi An

Every holiday has a lingering memory, an image frozen in the mind's eye - thinking of which always evokes warmth and joy. What was the most fun activity I did in Hoi An? People watching, of course! August is the last month of peak domestic season in this ancient trading port - the resorts were...

Some spectacular sunsets from across the world

I am not a morning person - there, one confession down right at the beginning. I try - I earnestly do. I have tried going to sleep early, all I end up is sleeping for 10 hours instead of the required 7 hours. I have tried alarms away from my hand or literally in the...

Busting the ‘Nothing to do in Oslo’ myth

Travelling means different things often. Some travel for a holiday, others like us to discover the world. What is the difference you wonder? Well, travelling for a holiday often means a lovely relaxed break at a luxurious spa or resort in a scenic location. Travelling to discover the world? Well, that means lugging backpacks, hunting...

Surviving the chaos in hilly Dharamsala

If you are the kind that scours the work calendar for long weekends to escape from the daily humdrum - away from the urban chaos, you also need to be the kind to plan it weeks (if not months) in advance. Or you'll end up doing what we did! Not that it is not fun,...

The Travel Bug: It Bites Some Harder than Others

I'm on my final day of travelling through Myanmar. It's been ten days since I got here. And I'm in love with a country that's still learning how to embrace the free flow of tourists into their country. The systems are still not completely in place - public transportation, lack of signages or population that...

Monsoonal Musings From Myanmar

If Procrastination were a punishable offence, I'd be serving a life term. ~ Anon*  I have been writing about my travels as a post script, never as a continuing journal or blog posts. So on this trip, I have resolved to not procrastinate and at least have short posts that perhaps later I can follow...

On the Whisky Trail in Aberdeen

You are travelling through Scotland and wait, you wonder, what is one thing you absolutely must do - See Edinburgh to soak in the literary history, Travel through the Scottish Highlands, Hunt for Nessie at Loch Ness and wait.. what's more Scot than Scotch? Isn't Scotch that makes Scotland world famous? Do I even need...

The Garden By the Bosphorus, Life and Cups of Turkish Tea

Have you ever felt your soul connect with a particular spot in some part of the world where you are a foreigner? Ever felt that connect tug so hard that you surprise yourself into saying that this is perhaps the place where my soul would like to wander long after my body has become lifeless?...