In October 2010, my very generous boss and his lovely wife invited me to join them on a cruise on the Aegean Sea, to celebrate their birthdays on a yacht filled with about hundred other friends and family. We boarded the yacht at the port of Piraeus in Athens, sailed…
I am a flatlander. I grew up in the plains in India and then moved to the tropics where I lived near some of the best beaches in the world for the next decade. In my 37 years, I have seen snow about 3 times. The first when I was…
This has been a special year for my family as my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and my dad turned 70. While that sounds like a formula for misadventure, it ended up being one of the best vacations we’ve taken as a family, filled with food, laughter, wine…
I’ve always been fascinated with Istanbul, having read extensively about Constantinople, the Ottoman empire and the Byzantine era. My first trip to Istanbul was in April 2013, when spring was in the air and 3 million tulips were in full bloom in time for the Istanbul Tulip Festival. I…
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to fly? To soar above the clouds and get a bird’s eye view of the world below, as you feel the wind on your face…My husband, an avid skydiver had described the feeling so many times, that I knew I…
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I imported this post from the archives of my personal blog. This was my first adult experience with snow, and I was reminded of it on my first ever ski trip to Tahoe in 2016, a good ten years later!Berlin, February 2006I am in Berlin on some Strasse…
I started blogging in November 2005 after a business trip to Frankfurt bursting with stories of everything I had seen and experienced. While I had been to Europe before, it was my first time in Germany. That trip turned into the first of many things, which got me started on…
If you are a history buff and have a thing for crazy stories and anecdotes, New Orleans is the perfect place to visit. War, culture, food, paranormal, voodoo….you name it, they got stories around it. At some point, fact and fiction intermingle and history becomes a collection of fascinating…
