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...

What we now know about travelling in Scandinavia

While blogging when travelling, the blog becomes kind of like my diary. You are privvy to my notes. I will do a more detailed travelogue, once I'm back at my desk and have gone through all my photos and notes. The Danish leg of this trip was so hectic that I realise I have written...

Luck favours the adventurous in the land of the fjords

Sometimes you luck in...and how. N and I love to plan our travel itineraries. We spend a fair amount of time on research..we like travelling on a budget and splurging occasionally on fine experiences along the way. So while planning our trip through Norway, we began by being certain only of one thing..seeing the fjords....

A friend in need in Oslo

Early this morning, the Pearl Seaways cruiseship docked in at Oslo. N and I were pretty keen to start the second leg of our Denmark-Norway trip.  Since we got on to the ferry, N has been wondering about whether to convert our dollars into Norwegian Krones (NOK) or wait till we reach Oslo. In a...

Exploring Budapest: A Slice of Holocaust History

Travel is perhaps the best teacher in the world - especially if you are curious about history and how the world changed and morphed into the beautifully ugly crazy rabid zone - where every identity has a religious, ethnic, racial sub-story. At some point of history or other, there has been persecution, pogroms, subjugation and...

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...

Talking Tea, BathSpa and Sally Lunn’s Buns

What do you do when you are low on energy, inspiration and the general joie de vivre that is sooo essential to keep a travel blog lively and vivacious - and more importantly make you want to live that experience through me or even better it some time later? Well, you dig deep into your...

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...