Tag: travel

The Saturday experience

29/3
Today ,we were leaving mumbai for the long weekend …. For home ,so we go towards the domestic airport to meet the driver ,at 9:30 am who would be dropping us home .and just finding the driver near orchid hotel ,finally found him and left for the journey home ,it was towards stellar data recovery that we accidentally met with a two wheeler accident ,and later while going through a narrow lane ,where the bikers met with the accident ,with a bunch of people gather around ,telling us to pay the damage ,being no fault of ours ,after a dispute we settled the matter @a cost of ₹500 ,till we went to collect our Harddrive and got it back soon as we ran back from the office since we felt they were creating an issue again ,just a kilometre later I realised that my black bag was missing which was quite important .
So while we tried to recollect called stellar ,no it wasn’t there and so just trying to solve the mystery and pretty sure the guys must have taken the bags but in no time in disappears and what shocking is I was in the car all the time ,how did it go ?
It’s like all my past in going ,part of it has gone in the last ten twelve days
Hoping there aren’t anymore shocks today.there are still 12hours for the day to end .
And finally the 3 and a half hour journey ends in six hours.

Queen

Queen -The movie Happy women day to all the Queen of the world in there on way .

The movie was about how a girl is dejected as her wedding is cancelled ,as the boy (rajkumar Rao) doesn’t seems to be interested in her ,since everything is decide the family is really worried and cancel the bookings , except one , the honeymoon which she (kangana ranuat ) wants to go , to Paris and Amsterdam .I’ts on her honeymoon journey where the movie shows how difficult it can be for a traveller
for the 1st time and the challenges faced of languages and change in culture ,the movie is set quite realistically and the actors too have done a good job especially kangana ranuat since the movie is all about her.
The movie Also shows how her new friends are part of her life ,and how when she gets used to the culture the guy comes back in her life apologising her for his mistake and is surprised to see her change so much and giving her new friends more importance than him.
It’s ends with that people want to be like this ,but think too much before doing anything .

Kashmir !

The journey from Mumbai started at 9:30 And there are so many people travelling around itself , either to Bangalore ,chennai or kashmir …where we are heading ,it’s supposed to be an economic down turn that our country is going through but it really doesn’t seems to be so or is it just an excuse by people not wanting to spend money.
So it’s 10:40 and time to board the flight .And the flight is full as we expected .
So the journey towards Srinagar begins and we could see so much of snow around the mountains .the top view was so beautiful that we couldn’t wait to get to our final destination (gulmarg)
So while we were passing Srinagar we wanted to have lunch and so first we went to a vegetarian restaurant but we wanted some authentic stuff so we went a little ahead and had authentic Kashmiri meal ,there were kebabs  rice ,gravy of  3 different types and naan.It was such a heavy meal .
Also the restaurant were we ate are lunch made me feel like I was in Pakistan. Since I felt Pakistan would be like this after hearing the description the other day .
While travelling to gulmarg I also felt this what Pakistan might look like .
Also as we arrived to Srinagar there were so many cops,officials around stretching nearly a kilometre outside the airport.
So as we proceeded to our final destination gulmarg we reached a site just 15 km from where we had to go to change the taxi which had chains in tyre since it’s too slippery with the depth of snow
So the next 15 km took quite some time due to narrow lanes and plus the snow forced cars to be stuck .so while waiting in queue to move we witnessed  slight snowfall. It was a feeling like we were abroad and not in India since both the sides had such heavy snow and completely white . it made us feel that only if Kashmir becomes more tourist friendly and developed it will be the best site India can offer to foreigners and give a run for its value for money
With space like a  football ground for skiing ,activities like sledging ,snowboarding , It could just be the best winter tourism destination with xtreme winter tourism .
It’s just the arrival to gulmarg and the first day of our 4 day Kashmir holiday .

A thought for the day !!!

food

Just the other day ,one of my classmates had gone for the weekend to my hometown,from a metro like Mumbai .And so me being from that town ,he asked what he can do?

After thinking about two minutes ,I realised that where ever we travel ,the only difference we see is food .
whether its Travelling to another state in the country , or to another country abroad we only see what else can be eaten ,there is so much everywhere for sightseeing ,the shopping brands and stuff might be available in another country in a few months but the only difference would be of getting that authentic taste of food which is served locally ,no matter how hard you try to get the exact taste of a local cuisine there would be some  ingredients that would not be available. That gives  the exact taste of the dish.And that’s why when we  travel we  go to authentic places for authentic food.…
And so food is the only common topic ,even when we discuss our daily happenings .Food is such an important topic today globally .And with accessibility ,its just become easier to travel more,explore more in no time.

brief history of Travel guides !!

the world has changed .

*The first travel guide was the form of a periplus (a latin word for a “sailing around”) a manuscript that charted portsand landmarks (and the distant between them)that a sailing vessel  would expect to find along a shore .later ,pilgrims tales of their religious travel around europe became popular guides .

  • Between 15th & 17th centuries ,published accounts of aristocrats grand tours around Europe  became the standard for many travellers Richard lassels ,priest and travel writer ,published the voyage of Italy in 1670 .
  • The early 19th century ,marina starks’s guide to travelling in France & Italy recognised the of the budget traveller in UK .The first travel guide to be published in the US was gideon Minor Davison The fashionable Tour (1822)
  • The modern guidebook came into being in 1830s when long -distance travel became a trend .Murray’s handbook for traveller covered destination in Europe,Asia and Africa.
  • The 21st century the iPad and smartphones have induced publisher to look into e-book and apps .world is  just  a touch away .