Tag: travel

  • Bloganuary Day 24: A place close to home that I haven’t yet visited

    Bloganuary Day 24: A place close to home that I haven’t yet visited

    My wife and I moved to Kochi in 2016, I love this city and want to stay here for the foreseeable future. This year, we would have spent eight glorious years in the city, and by now, we have explored every nook and corner of it. Well, almost. It is hard to believe that there…

  • Bloganuary Day 23: Five Things I Do for Fun

    Bloganuary Day 23: Five Things I Do for Fun

    Who doesn’t love having fun? As I have shared earlier in this blog, I am a big fan of the idea of NOT taking life too seriously, something I’m embracing more and more in life. In this context, I am getting more and more enamored of doing fun things. Or even finding fun in the…

  • Bloganuary Day 13: A memorable road trip

    Bloganuary Day 13: A memorable road trip

    We bought a Nissan Magnite in May 2023, upgrading from a 9 year old Maruti Suzuki Ciaz. It was a much needed upgrade for the primary driver (pun not intended) of our family, as the Ciaz had survived a major accident not too long ago and had left us stranded on the road at least…

  • My Preferred Mode of Travel

    My Preferred Mode of Travel

    Today’s prompt asks me the question: “What is my preferred mode of travel?” My answer is simple – Flying. Sure, it is not economical – flying is crazy expensive these days. And let’s not even get into the environmental impact a single flight causes on the planet; so much that many folks are mulling giving…

  • Travel: Life-Changing Experience, or Overrated Indulgence?

    Travel: Life-Changing Experience, or Overrated Indulgence?

    Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. The first time I came across this quote from the renowned Moroccan Scholar – Ibn Batuta, my instantaneous response was negative. Not because I consider the words of one of the greatest traveling scholars that ever lived, to be sacrilege. My reaction to this quote, had more to…