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Category: on the move

  • Landmarks

    Birds migrate, their homing skills, using different techniques like smell, vibrations from the earth’s magnetic field and geographic clues. I never realized how much humans did it too, until we travelled down to Udupi for the week-end. When we left home for the anegudde temple, on the way would be smell of the drying fish,…

  • Travel lecht.

    Skyscanner Travel smart, …. http://www.skyscanner.co.in When someone asks a question that requires an answer the first challenge is what actually is the question. Then  comes the answer. Sometimes answering requires us to ponder how does this apply to me.. That brings me to what is travelling smart… What is smart? smart, well sitting in a…

  • Madras mail.

    Nandini, Arvind, karishma, and Ramit are recreating the Chennai express magic, and I am getting nostalgic. For us it was Madras Mail, from Mangalore to Chennai, the excitement would begin, when we reached the Mangalore station those days there were just three trains leaving the station. There was Kasargod station, where my grandfather’s sister and…

  • Constantinople calls

    An ideal family holiday is something for everyone, and one for the road. No schedules no deadlines, window shopping, adventure eating, something old something new, Constantinople east and west becomes destination best. “Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole…

  • smell of day break

    One lazy afternoon, the door bell rang, It was Guru. I know Guru from the day he was working for some fly by night courier services riding an ancient two-wheeler. Today zips on Bajaj Pulsar, wearing the crisp blue uniform of Blue dart couriers doing some further studies in Logistics and something which is a…

  • Family Travel pack

    If I could take my family to any place on the planet where would it be? The most important question that  I ask how would you define family is it vasudaiva kutumbakam? Jim Butcher might retort “when everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.” Actually that is interesting…