The next day after visiting Mount Saleve, we flew to Venice in Italy. The only reason of going to Venice was to visit the Shrine of St. Antony (San Antonio as he is known over there, Antonio is named after him) in Padua, which is a mere twenty minutes by train from Venice. The flight …
The game kinda went off track in season 3 of Sherlock, don’t you think? They focused so much on the relationship between characters there was no time to portray any real case, that’s when Sherlock is in his element. I kinda felt lost and at times bored during this season, I couldn’t believe what they …
Stick to the elementary, dear Moffat and Gatiss… Read More »
So it’s another year…somehow the beginning doesn’t seem as exciting as the ending of a year. Every November I start experiencing a year ending high, and when the new year dawns it’s back to normal life, back to routine. Family members who have come from afar go back to their countries, the holidays come to …
Christmas season in Nagercoil is always exciting, a certain type of magical warmth fills the air and lifts the spirits. The town seems to glow with all the star lights and serial lights that adorn most houses, it’s a simple kind of beauty and it never ceases to amaze me. The Nativity scene at home… …
An angel beckons… Remember the crib from last year, made use of the angel charts to cover the top this time…. Look at them proclaiming the good news. An angel spreading the light… This is how it looks… The Christmas tree in church that me and a cousin decorated… It’s Christmas eve and this whole month has …
So my birthday was on the next day after our return from Paris and we decided to visit Mount Saleve in France, which is about twenty minutes from Geneva… it borders Geneva and looms over the city protectively. Once you get down at the bus stop, you have to walk a few minutes to reach …
Just wanted to show you the Christmas decorations that start appearing towards the end of October in shops like Manor, a Swiss department store chain. Wreaths, Christmas balls, cages… Candles, lanterns… Snow men…. This was the one I loved the best… glowing orbs Reindeer’s… More decorations… Christmas-y stuff… Santa Claus… Fairy lights… I loved these …
So after the evening mass on Sunday, we climbed up the 284 winding steps… Of the Arc de Triomphe, here she is lit up at night… And from the top of the Arc, this is how the Eiffel Tower looks at night… It sparkles a few minutes every hour… and then people start kissing on …
After checking out the major sights in Paris, we decided to go to Versailles which is about half an hour from Paris. The walk from the station to the palace of Versailles is pretty good, a nice long avenue with trees lining either side… it’s a beautiful stretch and this is how avenues should be …
Strolling around in Versailles and a fun flea market… Read More »
We visited Louvre the next day and I wasn’t really into it, in fact I didn’t want to go at all…. but I made the mistake of vehemently declaring to my brother that I had no intention of seeing Louvre, and because of that he did the exact opposite. If I had been cool and …