I had earlier described St Petersburg as the flamboyant European alter ego of Russia and the moment you step into the city you will know why I said so. It is in […]
Saint Petersburg – A 48 hour guide
Somnathpur Temples – A Hoysala marvel
About 140 kms from Bangalore on the NH-275 towards Mysore, lies the beautiful temple of Chennakesava built in 1268 CE by Somanatha, a commander under the Hoysala Empire King Narasimha III. This temple is said […]
Day Trip: Vladimir and Suzdal
If you are touring Russia, apart from the obvious Moscow and St Petersburg, it is almost a sacrilege to not visit atleast one of the towns from the Golden Ring – a […]
48 hours in Helsinki
We arrived in Helsinki on Day 4 of our Moscow-St Petersburg-Helsinki-Tallinn-Riga trip, on the 11.30am Allegro from St Petersburg. The train journey itself was quite unremarkable except few flashes of the beautiful […]
Aeroflot and SVO Reviews
The very name of Aeroflot often fills people with dread and not for no reason. Aeroflot had earned the reputation of being one of the worst airlines of the world during the […]
Moscow – A 24 hour guide
If you have chosen Russia as your next travel destination and are not traveling by land into Russia then there is no escaping Moscow. Most international flights into Russia land at one […]
Bengal to Bengaluru – A roadtrip
As narrated by my dad… It was on 12th June 2015 that we, my wife and I, under took a long road journey in our old horse, our beloved Maruti Suzuki Dzire. Perhaps […]
A crazy trip – Russia, Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga
So you plan to go to Russia because its summer and every frigging place on the earth is simmering (ofcourse obviously the south pole is not, and no I don’t consider the […]
Russian Tourist Visa for Indians
There are these old wives tales all over the internet on how difficult getting a Russian tourist visa is, how awfully complicated and painstakingly long the procedure is. Well, I don’t know […]
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has for long been the child of a lesser God when it comes to tourist footfalls. Tourists visiting the UK most often than not give it a pass for the […]
