So a trip to Europe is never complete (for a Roman Catholic) without visiting Lourdes. Stories have been told of how Jesus’s mother appeared to a young girl named Bernadette on February 11th 1858. Since then people have been flocking this small village to pray and ask for favours. It makes for a beautiful sight, …
So last week me and a couple of friends, Shilpa and Anju, happened to stop by Villa Maya for lunch. This place was initially a house for the royal consorts of the Travancore king. The Travancore kingdom was strictly matrilineal, meaning the heirs of the king could not inherit the throne, the throne was passed …
So I am in the church editorial committee and the book seen above is this month’s issue of the magazine…. I wrote quite a few articles… May being the month of Mary, wrote the following article about her… Divinity of Mother Mary Many friends and cousins started joining this relatively new movement called AG, which …
So one fine day in October 2013, we decided to visit the Castle of Aigle, or Chateau d’Aigle as it is known in French. The train ride from Geneva to Aigle takes about an hour and a quarter, and our breakfast would usually be some fruits and flavoured yogurt. So there we would sit in …
For a whole month it was mostly me and Nam, roaming around on our own and Vinod would accompany us during the weekends. So one day we decided to visit Hermance, a picturesque village on the banks of Lake Lehman, situated barely 25 minutes from my brother’s place. We took the bus and the ride …
My brother bought a bottle of Irish bailey’s cream, and I had some choco chips lying around… and decided to make some Bailey’s Irish Cream Brownies and they came out pretty good. Here’s the instagram video (click on the link). I’ve been hooked to Instagram since the first time my sister told me about it, in fact…. I waste …
An uncle and aunt live in Baden, which is about 3 hours from Geneva, so we (me and Nam) set out to meet them one fine morning. Their house is near the Limmat river and while aunt was cooking up a tasty lunch, Nam and me decided to explore the area. Went walking along the riverbank… …
Continued from the previous post, so after lunch we continued exploring Yvoire… This place is such a haven for people who love to walk around and get lost in the beauty of ancient stone houses shrouded in vibrant hues of flowering plants… Flowers everywhere… The tourist office, every city or village in Europe seems to …
I think I will have to do this post in two parts, way too many pictures. Somehow I don’t like excluding pictures from this post, it’s like betraying this place that shrouded me in rainbows and sunshine and the cool river breeze… All our Euro trips right up to Chamonix were planned, after that we …
Chamonix (shah-mo-nee) is a mountainous town in France situated at the base of the Alps and barely a two hour drive from Geneva. So one weekend we drove down to this beautiful little town, and at first glance we were in love with this place… First glimpse as you enter Chamonix… The lovely hotel we stayed at… …