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As far as the name is concerned you can find a sense of joy & warmth by pronouncing San Antonio !!!!!!!!! The place to party and completely changing yourself to a party animal….. San Antonio is not a place for peace lovers or for a person w... Read More
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This is a city where the past is the present, where Gods still linger and monarchs are worshipped , where myths and legends merge to create history , where romance is about wars fought and won, where art is a way of life , where stones speak and the ... Read More
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The KLM flight finally took off as I tiredly lay back for my sojourn to the French land, for the nth time I mentally checked on the important documents- hotel booking, connecting flights, Eurorail passes & Euros and hoping that the recommendation... Read More
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I will never forget Alberto Giovanni. It was the winter of 1988 and on our way to London to spend a couple of weeks with friends during the Christmas vacation, we planned a short visit at Florence. Florence (Firenze in Italian) is the capital... Read More
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Zurich (“Zu-reich” in German means too rich), the business and cultural capital of Switzerland, lies at the north end of Zurich Lake, in the valley formed by the ridges of Uetliberg on the west and Zurichberg on the east. Extending along both sid... Read More
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Before I start, just to clarify that this is not a travel guide but more so my personal travelogue – an account to keep ones sanity. In the last handful of years most of my travels have been work related, the usual dash here and a quickie there, a... Read More
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On the way to Geneva to visit our daughter who was doing a project there, we planned to include a three day sojourn at London. After visiting the usual tourist places - Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, “London Eye... Read More
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Essentially, we had only a day and two nights in the beautiful hilly heartland of North Wales, Snowdonia. Wales is Castle country, North Wales only more so. We had booked our bed and breakfast at Queens Hotel in the shadow of the majestic Harlech... Read More
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Hi! I am Shubham Sarcar, a student of class 7, DPS -R K Puram. Some people may know me from before from another travelogue that I had written when I was in class 4, about my trip to Garhmukteshwar. This time I am writing about my visit to London. Sin... Read More
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Lucerne (Luzern in German), is situated on the western tip of Lake Lucerne, which lies at the geographical and spiritual heart of Switzerland, where the tops of the mountains are covered with snow and their sides flanked with glaciers. Standing at th... Read More
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It all happened in a jiffy. Our daughter, Shaguna, who was doing a project along with three of her colleagues at Geneva, called my wife and asked if it would be convenient for her and me to visit Switzerland for a couple of weeks. Eager to see ... Read More
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Now that I have been in London for quite a while, it will not be a bad idea I guess to try and share some of my explorations of this interesting city with you. One of the obvious things that any tourist does on coming to London is to reach Westmin... Read More
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After the fairly long journey getting to Jungfrau (3 separate trains is no joke), you reach the underground train station (in fact, a large portion of the infrastructure at Jungfrau, is underground - or more accurately, built into the side of the mou... Read More
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Due to my work requirement I need to stay in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK and I was bit worried about the place as I came to know it is a bit smaller than some of major cities of UK. However my company arranged a house for me which was situated just in... Read More
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The next morning in Luzern, our destination was Mount Pilatus (wikipedia, official site). Mount Pilatus is another famous tourist site in Switzerland, located near the top of a mountain peak. Pilatus has the longest summer toboggan track in Switzerla... Read More
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The previous installment of this series covered reaching the small city of Interlaken in Switzerland, and the disappointment of not being able to do the cruise on the same day since we were too late. Anyhow, we drowned our sorrows the first day in so... Read More
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Part 1 is here.The morning sun rays fill the room, up by 0700 hours, views of the sea and a doze of fresh air on the balcony while watering the plants, we are on the street by 0815 hours, It’s a bright morning and as usual at this hour just like an... Read More
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In continuation to my Frankfurt journey ,next day morning we left for Mainz and we walked down to Frankfurt Railway station and caught a train . It took around 20 mins to reach our destination and got down one station before the Mainz Main Sta... Read More
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Background: I read Da Vinci Code when I was in Switzerland. This book is a piece of art and believe me, I read the last 300 pages in just one night and completed this book in morning around 4:30 am. The aftereffect of reading the book was that I star... Read More
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A so-called-conference brought me to Rome. It was a chilly mid-February and we had completely underestimated the weather. Further, I had never been close to this land on the globe so was clueless in any sense of direction. I was advised to carry ... Read More
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This is in continuation of my previous post on Cornwall, where on the first day we had spent some time exploring and experiencing the coastline around Fowey in South Cornwall. The next two days we intended to visit two of the most famous gardens of ... Read More
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I went to the Italian island of Sardinia for a four day break with 6 friends of mine a couple of months ago. We didn't do much there but to chill on the beach, but since we had an awesome time its worth sharing anyway. Sardinia is the second larg... Read More
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We were involved in the daily grind of office, and were really needing a break. The initial plan was to plan a trip to Switzerland by end of September, and there was some careful planning going on, although at a slow place (September end was after al... Read More
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In a previous post, I had covered our trip to Jungfrau. The return was a bit of an anti-climax, since the line to the train was long, and we were tired. However, as we started the gamut of 3 trains that take one back to Interlaken, the energy started... Read More
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Disclaimer Again: The story in this post has nothing to with any real persons, places, procedures and events and any resemblance thereto is purely coincidental. The flight that took off from IGIA at 6:00am IST (departure with 2:30hrs delay), was h... Read More
By :    113 days ago   Comments :  6
We wanted to make the most of our second and last day in Edinburgh. By lunch time we were done with our tour of the Edinburgh Castle and thus we decided to move on to what was next on our list. We had been told a lot about two other attractions – ... Read More
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It was now our second and last day in Edinburgh. Our main aim for the day was to visit the Edinburgh Castle, and then from there on see what all we’d have time for. We woke up at about 7:30 am, which was, again, one of the earliest times we’ve... Read More
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This was really our first day in Edinburgh, and so we decided to do all the main tourist-ey stuff. We planned on getting ourselves on one of those Hop On-Hop Off (HOHO) open-top tour buses that promised to take you to all the destinations worth visit... Read More
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Today promised to be an eventful day, to say the least. We had booked ourselves on a train across the country, right up to Edinburgh, where we’d planned to stay for 3 nights. From there we planned to go to the Lake District and stay there overnight... Read More
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Our plan for the day was to go to the Taste of London food festival (yes, for the 3rd time in 3 years).  But then, what can I say, the Argentine steak is scrumptious to say the least. And of course, where there is a BA event, there is Honey (don’t... Read More
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  My Mahayatra - Iceland to Himachal Pradesh Yesterday after a tiring trip of Southampton and Stonehenge, we were fresh the next morning and this time our destination was Portsmouth a beautiful city between London and Southampton. We start... Read More
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Southampton - the first stop in my Maha Yatra from Iceland to India Almost 2 years in Iceland and I had become home-sick.  India was calling and on 7th Nov I finally flew from Iceland for my journey to India.  We reached Keflavik airpor... Read More
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My vacations were starting and we were going for our yearly trip to London, except that this time it was going to be much more than that. We had planned on making London our base, and then go exploring other parts of the UK.  Scotland, Lake District... Read More
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[caption id="attachment_75600" align="alignnone" width="640"] Colosseum, Rome[/caption] You know how you thought that dreams like that never becomes true and then it suddenly hits you that you are indeed in the dream and fear that it might end soo... Read More
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Auroroa borealis, a magnificient fire works of Mother Nature.  Aurora is generated when charged particles from Sun enters the earth's north or south pole area where magnetic force is at maximum.  This much is my knowledge about Aurora.  For more t... Read More
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We were all set to gather our impression of the land of Galileo, Leonardo, Monica Bellucci and of course the inimitable Ferrari- ITALY. We were to board our night train to Italy from Paris. Experience had wised us up enough to discard the idea of tak... Read More
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Day 3 ended with a luxurious pampering at the hotel spa. We got a nice ayurvedic massage done to completely rejuvenate the senses and we were treated with herbal tea to detox the body. Learning about us coming from India, the masseur put her best eff... Read More
By :    351 days ago   Comments :  10
Amsterdam is famous for a lot of things. The night life, the canals, the legalized grass & weeds at "Coffee shops", diamonds, museums and the like. But beyond all this, I wonder if anyone would want to know more about the city and its surroundin... Read More
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It was summer vacation. That time of the year when the kids are allowed to be kids. The parents are spared the daily grind of packing them off to school. No one feels guilty to breathe easy. There is no neck break speed to get up early or the panic w... Read More
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  So you read in last parts about my sojourn in Madrid and about wonderful places there.  Now the time at Madrid was going to end and I had to return. When I returned to the  hotel, it was time to go. My host was waiting to drop me at th... Read More
By :    355 days ago   Comments :  13
In the first part of the story you have read about my arrival of Madrid and visit to some beautiful places. Well then after this tiring night adventure, we came back to hotel and slept. There was no official program left and I slept deep, not cari... Read More
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Iceland was coming out of long winters.... Sun had started showing his beautiful face every now and then. The trees and shrubs were waking up... peeping through their tiny leaves towards the coming summer. I was planning my next trip of eastern coast... Read More
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After a colorful day at the Tulip Gardens, we reached the hotel and had a relaxed dinner. Our hotel was one of those many Airport hotels of Schiphol. It had some of the best amenities like luxurious rooms, a great sports bar , a greater fitness cente... Read More
By :    1 year, 7 days ago   Comments :  12
Easter weekend and an urge to travel made us pack our bags and set off to Amsterdam! Unlike most of our previous trips, we "didn't" plan much. We vaguely had an idea though, of what we wanted to see in the city. No doubt that the city has some of the... Read More
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दोस्तो आशा है आपने मेरी पिछली यादें पढ़ी होंगी कि किस तरह घुमक्कड़ी न केवल हमारा मनोरंजन करती ह... Read More
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In my earlier series, you have read a lot about Iceland.  As you know now that Iceland was named incorrectly by earlier Vikings.  They came and saw the Greenland island full of glaciers and ice and no vegetation, and would have given the name "Icel... Read More
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Today was our 15th and second-last day in England. Our plan for the day was to be at the beach in the morning, then go to see the Spinnaker Tower in Gunwharf Quay in the afternoon, and finally take our Coach back to London (we’re in Portsmouth, rem... Read More
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“I'm afraid of heights”...I mumbled. He gave me a WTF look.. Are you kidding? He probably wanted to ask. He was not wrong. Here I was going to jump off the cliff in few minutes. how the hell was he going to believe that I was actually scared of h... Read More
By :    1 year, 96 days ago   Comments :  18
ROME- doesn't this word alone trigger your imagination? Doesn't it make you feel the romance in the air? Doesn't it talk about style, culture, history etc etc ?? Yes, it surely does! The city is full of offerings for all varieties of travelers. It of... Read More
By :    1 year, 103 days ago   Comments :  14
Our 13th day in London was, again, dedicated to shopping. Our day was spent fully at M&S and Tesco, and in the evening we went to one of Mausi Ji’s friend’s barbecue party. We had some wonderful food there, in the garden with a hammock and po... Read More