I started a series during the Covid times called going places where I started documenting all the 32 countries I have been to, through Instagram Reels. Then travel happened, in small doses but still it happened. And I got caught in it. And a lot of stuff in real life too. But here I am,…
Tag: trips
Why I Love to Come Back Home After a Trip
I started travel blogging a long time ago, 2005. All the stories on my blog were about my personal trips. But gradually blogging picked up and I started getting invited on trips by hotels and tourism boards. Then in 2015 I quit my job as a professor in a private institute to do full-time travel…
4 Magical Places on Earth by JustFly
The Earth’s radius is 6,371 kilometers, with a 510.1 million km² surface area. With such vastness, our world has plenty of space for countless wonderful places, both discovered and undiscovered. Some of these places may look magical, almost surreal. To see these places in person will surely evoke feelings of awe and wonder. Today, online…
Country Counting- Part 2
In the last post I counted the first five countries I visited. It is time to count the next five countries out of the total 16 that I have visited till now. The countries I saw next are Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Thailand. So, this post in second in the series of the…
Do You Count the Number of Countries You Have Visited?
I wish I was above the number game but I do count the countries that I have visited till date! The number is low, just sixteen excluding India. I say it is low because I actually want to visit well, everywhere! I was strangely fascinated by foreign lands from an early age. When The Great…
What Makes for Memorable Trips?
I enjoy all my trips. And now that I have got that out of the way, here are some of my truly memorable trips. I know this is a personal list but hopefully you will identify with some of it? It was so darn hard: I never have any difficulty in picking up my most…
When in Athens …
A very long time ago, 2001 to be precise, I visited Athens (was attending an academic conference). I did not plan to reminscene about the trip but reading Kent E St. John’s post ‘Female in Jordon’ did the trick. He writes about the expeiences of Shari Caudron’s visit to Jordan. You have to read her…
Two New Things on Card: A DSLR and a Trip to Sikkim
Well, my computer at home is slowly limping back to normal but the problem is we were so dependent on the laptop that we never really bothered much about its power backup. Now, with the laptop in the ‘maybe not repairable’ category we realize how bad the power scene in Gurgaon is. Every day they…