Saswad:Nature, History and Rustic Simplicity

by Atula Gupta

In India it is still fairly simple to leave urbanization behind and reach a place where the only things you run into are lush green meadows, wild flowers and quaint hill tops. These destinations are not what you will find in tourist maps, but what the path going out of a crowded city will automatically [...]

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The City and the Bath

by Keith Kellett

I had to pick my time carefully to visit the city of Bath. I wanted to go before the bulk of the tourists came, but after the rush of Christmas crowds around the many shops. But, that’s the way it’s always been, for visitors have been coming to Bath since before the Romans came, over [...]

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Best Time to Visit India

by Atula Gupta

Good weather while traveling is like the precursor of all good things to come. When the sun is shining gently and the breeze is soft and cool, even the uninteresting start looking like the perfect setting for a photographic pause or simply a moment to introspect.
In India, the weather is hot almost all through the [...]

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Calangute Beach, Goa

by Atula Gupta

For most tourists, Goa in India is the place where you can forget time for a while. Here things move in their own sweet pace without the hassles of a fast edged life and the need to do ten things at a time. It is an ideal location for the counter therapy needed by work [...]

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Away with the Pharaohs

by Keith Kellett

The afternoon Egyptian sun is hot. A few people splash languidly in the swimming-pool on the upper deck as the boat glides placidly up the Nile. One or two passengers lie sunbathing, but the majority sit reading, or talking quietly under the shade of the canvas awning.
At four o’clock precisely, a white-jacketed steward sounds a [...]

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The Golden Temple, Amritsar

by Atula Gupta

The followers of Sikh religion make a beeline to Amritsar, India all through the year, to a place which is considered the most sacrosanct abode of worship in their community. This place is Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple and one of the most ordained temples of the world.
History of the golden temple
It is said [...]

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Organizing your SXSW to-do list

by Laura Roberts

SXSW (aka South By Southwest) is fast approaching, and here in Austin this is a rather crazy time of year. (I mean, aside from the freak snowstorm we experienced yesterday!) Locals are trying to snap up wristbands to get into events, hotel owners are jacking up prices in anticipation of the rabid hoardes of film [...]

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Walking in the Tyrol

by Keith Kellett

 
Whoever built that hut meant it to last. Four-square and stolid, it stood on the mountain, defying anything the elements might throw at it. This was a real chalet, a world away from the tacky ‘shally’ of the holiday camp.
It was still used for its rightful purpose, too. From within came a lowing, and the [...]

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Tiger Sighting in India

by Atula Gupta

As the world welcomes the Chinese year of the Tiger, it is certainly not welcome news to know that only about 3500 tigers survive in the world right now. This regal animal, which is the national animal of India, is facing immense danger from human population, industrialization and natural erosion of habitat, not to forget [...]

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Douglas:The Engine that Joined the Royal Air Force.

by Keith Kellett

 
 

 

The original purpose of the narrow-gauge Talyllyn Railway, on the mid-Wales coast, was to carry slate from the Bryn Eglws quarry near Abergynolwyn down to the railway station at Tywyn..
It was also the first such railway which, when its operational life was over, attracted the attention of a Preservation Society. There was no period of [...]

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