A short getaway to the twin provinces of Rayong and Chanthaburi in Eastern Thailand
Coming Home – Living the Thai Life
I lose myself in the physical being of the new city- permit it to wrap and embrace me via its meandering alleyways. This lends me time to find myself again, in a more familiar posture. I watch people- as I watch my step.
A Retreat with a difference (Elsie Evans Art Retreat)
Elsie is no ordinary art teacher, and doesn’t believe in doling out conventional knowledge of how to sketch, or paint, or draw. She used ink, pastels, crayons, and water and showed us how it was possible to bring our inner vision on to paper, with a stroke here and one there.
The next three hours we spent spilling whatever was inside us- and recreating a vision for ourselves. By the end of it, we were spent, and pleased.
Tally Ho Charming Lands!
And there we were, my man and I, ready to hit the road. Have car, will race, was the motto of my companion on our tour of Czech Republic - Prague, Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary) and Zagreb (Croatia). We were both raring to go, no doubt about that, after ten...
My Mumbai Diary
rock n roll Concert!  An effort to take off in pursuit of unknown territory: I chose, with much trepidation, to visit my college-going daughter in her domain- not to invade it but to rediscover anew, perhaps, my own college (hood). Having never attended a traditional...
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