About 15yrs ago we had our only family trip to Naintal. I really do not remember much of it, except that Bhimtal was a sleepy hamlet. My husband ordered lunch we were about 10 of us, as his ashram friends had joined us. Aloo Parata was the only thing on the menu. That was when …
Gokarana
Yesterday being Ganesh Chaturthi, we decided to drive down to Gokarna. I have no pictures of either temple or the surrounding, for I was lost in memories of the two which visited years ago. The legend has it that Ravana the Lord of Lanka, carried the atma lingam of Shiva, fearing the consequences of this, …
A Wayside Inn.
We are back on our road trip this time it is on the Uttara Kannada belt. In our brand new Tata Zest XTA. The trip was essentially from Dharwad to Sirsi to Manipal. From there we were to travel to Kollur and back to Goa. It was around 1 pm when we hit Kumta and …
The unclaimed relics at sawantwadi.
One of the sights we were told to see in Sawantwadi was the Chitnis Wadi we drove down looking for it, we told the general directions. I realized that navigating from landmark to landmark we had a better shot at reaching our destination than asking the entire route. From the Moti tala we went towards …
The Bike Week
Bike week International Bike week is an annual event that originated in Europe. This is usually a seven day even that advocates the importance of bicycle as a means of transportation. This event is slowly becoming popular in North America over the past decade. What happens is there are city wide cycling supplemented events throughout …
Shilpagram
Like last year this year too, we decided to drive along to Sawantwadi the only difference being we researched what we could see in around Sawant wadi. Though we did research we really did not achieve our target since each bit was quite interesting. Shilpagram was one interesting destination. It was conceived with idea of …