This summer was a bittersweet one. First of all, residency hassles troubled our lives and cost us a lot of money. Then to top it all, we found ourselves neck de...
It was quite a joke, that Cologne was hotter than Cairo, the day we arrived back in Germany from Egypt. The German summer was in full swing in July and Deutschl...
Visiting Cuba was my trip of a lifetime. Incidentally, I travelled there in 2014, during the Obama Presidential tenure and the country was in news for easing it...
One of the things I miss most in Cairo is good hearty German bread. Due to my growing up in 80's Calcutta when bread went by the disgusting name "pauruti"...
Bhutan is a land of the enigma. A piece of paradise on the Himalayan range, it is the only country which contributes more oxygen than it consumes. Blessed with ...
Recently a Bhutanese friend of mine asked me to help him promote tourism to his beautiful country. He has a lovely boutique travel agency called Bhu...
The Maldives is stunningly beautiful and expensive. But with proper planning and pre-travel research, you can enjoy this paradise destination on a budget. To kn...
The next morning dawned bright and sunny. The sky was impossibly blue and the fragrant island air returned. My date to leave Fenfushi drew closer and I felt a b...
It rained heavily the next day forcing me to cancel all my plans. Being holed up in my room, doing nothing was strangely relaxing and the storm disconnected the...
As romantic as the open air boat ride in the middle of the Indian Ocean sounds, in reality, it gets tough quickly. I got badly sunburned in those twenty minutes...