London for Kids, by a kid : A short video-log
My daughter Vrinda is 7 years old. These are the activities and places that she enjoyed the most during her trip to London in May 2017.
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Bath – The Classic Architectural Marvel
The bus-ride through southern England showcased the beautiful countryside; it pleases your eyes and soothes your soul with its soft contours of green hills and meadows. No rough edges or jagged ends to jab your field of vision. Occasionally you’ll find a cluster of trees as if to relieve the monotony. Looking out of the window one fails to notice that you didn’t blink for a long time. Bath is an eye soothing place to be in.
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Walking Tour of Isle of Arran, Scotland
Presence of the Gulf Stream in this bay area lent a very diverse element to the foliage, extremely distinct from the other coastal regions of the British Isles.
This is the little mountain that we climbed…not exactly the steep climb but we hiked all around it to reach the other side.
4 Tips to renting a car in the UK
A lot of people are opposed to being part of car hire horror stories statistics. You should too, by ensuring that you go about…
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The Best of Gurdwaras from Gravesend to Glasgow – Guru Nanak Darbar, Gravesend
Although all the Gurdwaras and temples have an equal reverence, some of them do leave an ever lasting impression. One of these holy places…
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What makes The Isle of Wight grand, mesmerising and insatiable?
I had heard of Isle of Wight way back in 1973 during my first visit to England. I was lunching with a Gujju friend,…
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A senior citizen’s visit to London and making the most of it
It was a lovely evening when our closed family friend Mrs. and Mr. A. K. Agarwal came to our home over a cup of…
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The best of National Gallery, London
My wife is a person of few words; very few words. She rarely asks for anything and whenever she does, it becomes a commandment…
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The Idea of getting soaked in the Roman Bath
What we see today are the beautiful remains of the ancient Roman Spa, well maintained even to this day with an amazingly designed circuit for the tour. A multi-lingual audio guide provided there helped us learn facts better and also gave us an imaginative explanation of how life was in the olden times.
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Voyage to London from Bombay, via Sea and Road in 1958
We were among the hundreds of hopeful Indians, boarding the ship, in search of better life and future. Since we had paid the lowest fare, we were directed to the lower deck. The cabin allotted to us had ten other passengers-all young, and we knew a couple of them. Some of them were going to Germany and France, while the rest of us were bound for London.

My wife was the only female in the lower deck. Being all of almost the same age, we got along famously. All of us first time travelers, feeling seasick. The sea was pretty rough, and the food on the ship was disappointing. But we didn’t mind. The prospect of getting to London kept us cheerful.
Aden was the first port of call. And we went around the town with other passengers. Every one wrote a postcard to their families