Scotland Trip – Day 2

Date: 12th November 2006 Place: Scotland Rynee Mar B&B, Stirling: It was 08:00 and the Sun was lazier than us. The South Eastern sky had that ‘fiery orange’ colour, the colour of sunrise (my favourite colour). Pair of Factory chimneys, maybe of a Coal power plant, were puffing out smoke in the distance. Even birds, […]

Scotland Trip – Day 1

The trip was planned for four days November 11th to 14th. The participants for this 4 day extravaganza being: Myself, Gopal (ex-colleague), Venkat (class mate from Engineering days) and Pawan (colleague). Sipping coffee after the change in journey plans: the original idea was to travel by flight, now we were to travel by train. The […]

Greenwich – London Eye

Place: London Date: 12th August 2006 After 30 days of uninterrupted work (including weekends) I was just more than glad to have a weekend off. The plan was to spend Saturday in London with my friend (who stays in London) and arrange for a packaged tour to “Stonehenge” and nearby places for Sunday. I like […]

asatoma sadgamaya

This post could have been the result of me visiting any place, but, fortunately I was at one of my favorite locations – Chamundi Hill, Mysore. This prayer (from Upanishads) just clicked into my mind as I approached the foothills of Chamundi Hill and stayed with me for the rest of the day. Why did […]

Isle of Ely

Place: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK Date: 14th April 2006 Ely derives its name from Eel(y), a place where a lot of eels were to be found. And Eely is by no way an island now; it was once, until the 17th century, after which they completely drained the water from the low-lying fenlands. This place also […]