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 …
So Paris was every bit as exciting and fun as I thought it would be, it became a little too exciting when tempers started running high and a few people came close to stoning me, by few people I mean my siblings and Antonio. You see, Paris, and probably the whole of Europe, ought to …
After visiting churches, we set out to meet a cousin who lives near a farm. Nice houses on the way… Quaint roads… A week old calf… Pretty horses… fed them apples that were lying about. The curious one… This black one is an Icelandic horse… Sheep grazing away… We banged their lunch pail around and …
So the next day we set out to visit the Ulm Cathedral, or as it is known there, The Ulm Munster. Apparently it is the tallest church in the world… On the way we came across this beautiful scenery… a mustard field. Also saw the dirndl, a traditional dress worn in Germany… And this is …
Tonio’s aunts and cousins live in Germany and we set off one fine day to meet them. The train ride was pretty awesome, the views on either side of the track are mesmerizingly beautiful to say the least. Green meadows, cows & horses strolling about, woolly sheeps grazing on a hill, the lake sparkling and …
There is nothing like reading a properly phrased remark during a conversation with friends or cousins. While discussing the mundane and the not so mundane occurrences in the world outside, reading the succinctly and wittingly made points is a pleasure that wraps around you and keeps you grinning, while you go about your blessed ordinary …
So the mayhem and massacre in Egypt speaks volumes about the Muslim brotherhood and what they represent. Apparently they value neither their lives nor the lives of other innocent people, read this and this to know how terrifyingly volatile the situation is out there. These extremists organisations are a bane to peace and progress everywhere, they should …
Attended a retreat at St. Theresa’s church recently, and Fr. Stan Fortuna, a Franciscan Friar from New York, was in charge of leading the prayer service. He is entertaining and quite talented too, he played a variety of instruments, and mixed the different sounds up using a kind of mixer and he rapped and sang and he …
During my days at Santhi Nilayam, I had a lot of nuns and priests as friends. In fact, most of the contacts on my phone were either fathers or sisters. Many of them still keep in touch, and whenever I come home I try to visit them in whatever new convent or parish they have …