Spanish coffee shop chronicles
Category: Travel
Island landing scenes
Scenes, memories, of first sights of two islands.
Coffee in the USA
For someone who’s had coffee all of 20 times in her life, the US was a crash course on coffee drinking. It was an adventurous, nerve-wracking, and fashionable ride.
I Dream of Airports
I write this sitting in the comfort of my home, secure in the knowledge that my loved ones and I are safe. As the pandemic settled in India and we started working from home, I looked at my calendar on the wall, where I tracked trips, multiple-day meetings, and fun evenings out, and struck out…
Russia on my mind
(not another travel story) About a month ago, I finished ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles. It was a long book and took me about a month in between cooking, work from home and trying to keep it all together. But I also took my time reading it – relishing it, stopping frequently to…
The story of a ballet. In two acts.
(This might be the last of my stories from my trip to Russia. Maybe. ) Act I: A ballet in sandals By day two of my trip to Russia, I was sick. A cold that made it seem like my face was stuffed with cotton wool. I struggled to breathe and a headache made me…
Taking buses in Delhi
I am a public transport advocate. I’ve used public transport in every single city I’ve lived in and in many cities I’ve visited. I’m proud to be able to ‘crack’ the basics of public transportation wherever I go, and it’s a big part of my process of learning more about a city. But in Delhi,…
The things you leave behind
… On a trip. Out of the blue, I remembered two things I left behind in trips spaced eight years apart. In Delphi, Greece, I left behind a travel guide that I’d borrowed from the Ang Mo Kio public library in Singapore. My friend and I realised it when we’d left Delphi, I think, and…
Iran – 2016
My 2016 vacation to Iran will, for sure, be one of the top three destinations I will have travelled to in my life. There are many things fascinating about the country which often don’t make it to popular media (and hence into our list of dream destinations!) The country has so much to offer, and having…