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 […]
48 hours in Helsinki
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 […]
Local Cosmetics to hoard up on when Travelling
Souvenirs are to travelers what sonnets are to Shakespeare – both seldom exist without the other. And as a thoroughbred traveler we turn everything that we pick as a souvenir of our […]
Book Review: The Lives of Others
It is like cancer. It spreads through the living cells in your body, slowly and surreptitiously, without you even knowing. And then no matter what you do, it keeps spreading and spreading until […]
UAE – Dubai and Abu Dhabi
No trip to the Middle East can be complete without visiting the jewel of the Emirates – Dubai. You hate it or love it but you cannot just ignore it. Its one […]
