Travel Adventures

22 May 2013Buda is dominated by Varhegy Castle Hill and we climbed it today by its nineteenth century funicular. As well as visiting the main attractions the Matyas Church a recreation of an original 13th building and the Buda Palace a former royal residence which has been rebuilt several times over the centuries but is now a collection of museums we also wandered around the streets which inc

Chris Rock said this very well.... You better act right before you get smacked right. yes that is an interlude to my monkey lovekarma posting. Today was the conclusion of our golden triangle tour and we are now back in Delhi. Along the way we were able to stop on the road and see hundreds of monkeys that are daily fed by passersby. Apparently it is good karma to feed them so the price of bana

21 May 2013Hilly Budato the west of the Danube and flat Pest to theeast developed as separate entities over the last 1000 years and were not unitedas a single city until 1873. During all that time the city has seen numerousinvasions by various countries resulting in the settlements being destroyed orbadly damaged the last being when the advancing Russians besieged the Germanarmy between December

Please feel free to watch the video before or after if you would like to see the day in some live action shots. When we emerged from the doors of the Friendly Guesthouse Lily stood and smiled and we could feel excitement radiating from the glowing expression on her face the day previous when she had thrust her tiny notebook of testimonials into our hands a half dozen handwritten messages pres

Hi EveryoneI have been so busy with traveling and seeing all of Spain and France it has been awhile since I bloggedMy trip to SanJeandeLuz was amazing and I loved it. We visited the church in town which is hundreds of years old. It is a church dedicated to the Fishermen of SanJeandeLuz. We ate a typical French restaurant and they had very good food. We ate french waffles on the street t

lta nameGoBackgtltagtLife is busy with cooking friends travels books movies we have a cable at home etc. So finally I have a life. Drinking a lot of water reduced my salt and sugar content so much so the food seems tasteless without the accompanying chicken curry My flatmate installed flat screen TV and set up the cable network in the house. My duty in the morning is to clear

The British has colonized half of the world and I seem to be following its footprints from UK India Singapore and now Penang. Penang is an island off the mainland of Malaysia formally ruled by the British There is a fort called Fort Cornwalis and not many of us want to remember him in India. It was the only holiday option for me and my friend as we were travelling during the busy Chinese New Y

Malacca is about 3 hours bus ride from Singapore. Our guide was a tall Chinese guy who sang for us told us stories and the best is every time we collected to board the bus he was busy head counting as if we were little children. It is rare to see such warmth and dedication in Singapore at least. We started off early with a good breakfast of dosa and pudina mint chutney and then stopped for lu

Taiwan is not a usual tourist place but there I was headed with my colleague and her family for a 5 day trip covering Hualien Jianxi and Taipei city. At the very start we struggled with a Chinese GPS followed by an erratic US style driving and lack of familiar sights like petrol stations restaurants etc. All sign boards were like pencil drawings I slept off in the car and once up was looking

Living in India is not always easy who am I kidding its NEVER easy BUT its nearly impossible to live here without learning to man up. Here is a list of skills I have acquired thanks to my wonderful life here in India. I will say that none of these skills are things I would have thought I39d have when I was a kid but here they are 1 How to successfully eat all types of food including ric