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It was Sunday 5:00 a.m on the 25th of September. My flight to Vancouver was at 7:30 am.. ‘Enough time’ I said to myself.. How wrong I was… OMG… My train to the Newark airport from Metropark station was at 5:42 a.m. That unfortunately was the earliest train I could catch to get to the airport and the next one was an hour later at 6:42 a.m. So I need to catch the 5:42 train under any circumstances. ‘Enough time’ I repeated to myself…. Time was ticking . It was 5:25 and I was still at home giving a final rundown on the things I needed for my trip, watering the plants and ensuring the house was secure. 5:31 a.m , I slam shut the front door and run to my car. Oh yes, when running ... read more

The next morning, after a lovely breakfast of pohe, we left to go to see the famous fort of Janjira. We drove upto a small village of Dighi and took a boat to Rajpuri. From Rajpuri we had to take a small sail boat to the fort of Janjira. There were about 30 of us in this small dingy sailboat. As we set sail, the boat swayed big time due to the huge waves. Damn, I thought it would topple any moment and history of the incident in Bhugaon would repeat itself with a more intense flavor. The boatman tried to calm us by saying that it was always rocky initially and then it calms down as we head out into the sea. As we reached the gates of this magnificent fort, a thought came across ... read more

Wednesday morning, the 24th of December, a day before Christmas. I embarked onto the journey to Brussels. I, personally, was really looking forward to Brussels, the land of chocolates and WAFFLES… I didn’t have a good start tough. The train from Hilversum (where I was staying) to Amsterdam Central station had mechanical problems and stopped midway for a while. The result of which, as expected, I missed the connecting train to Brussels by 5 minutes. Sheesh…. But thankfully, there was another train shortly which I boarded and was off. Whew. Within 3 hours I reached Brussels. My commute misfortune didn’t end there Even though, as per the map, the Marriott hotel was located like 10 minutes walking distance from the Bruxelles Centraal station it took me about 30 minutes to reach the hotel because I went ... read more

I have been traveling overseas quite frequently in the past 3 years for official business and I didn’t ever think about blogging. But my friends have been forcing me to get out of my bohemian lifestyle and start blogging so I finally caved in and here I am with my first blog on my travel experiences. I must start by saying that the one thing I really like about traveling is that you learn different a lot; from cultures to language, food to cars. December has been very hectic with travel and work. On December 6th I left for Cologne or Köln, Germany I had been there during the same time last year but every trip is a learning experience. I was in a non-English speaking country and with my limited knowledge of German, I did ... read more