2014

If ever a year deserved a round-up/wrap-up senti look-back type post, it was this one.  And that's all I can say without falling into ma...

India?

"Don't do it," several different cab drivers advised us, on different occasions. Or, "Makes sense. Why stay so far away f...

Travelling While Pregnant: Do's & Don'ts

This is my favorite pregnancy pic. It says it all! This baby's definitely a traveler. We went to London, Scotland, New York, Vancouver, ...

Home Away From Home: An Ode to AirBnB

It makes my day when people say they used my notes on their European travels . A frequent follow-up question is: Where did you stay? Being m...

Exhaustion & epiphanies

Yesterday, I said, "Let's not go anywhere for at least a year. Maybe even two." And I meant it. Travel fatigue has hit us, and...

Where we're going next

A friend messaged me recently, "Didn't you go somewhere else also after Europe?" I did. I went somewhere else before, as well....

Scotland

Scotland throws up all kinds of philosophical questions. Like, what did Indians listen to on road-trips before Dil Chahta Hai & Zindagi ...

London

The UK's home to many legendary creatures - changelings and faeries, the Loch Ness, Jack O' Kent, and, of course, the romantic hero,...

Paris

I started this series talking about the incomparable experience of  walking through Rome before the sun rose. It seems fitting to end the n...

Food Round-Up: Austria & Germany

I was excited about eating my way through My Favourite Things (crisp apple strudels, schnitzel with noodles...) but a little daunted by reco...

Around Munich

To give you some context, I visited Italy for the food, Austria for nostalgia, Paris for the arts, and Munich because... I had to visit Dach...

Salzburg

Sound of Music was the first movie I fell in love with. Let’s be clear: I’m older, I know the movie wasn’t particularly accurate; Salzburg d...