Luxembourg

We had just said goodbye to Lille and hopped on a bus to Brussels. After waiting for an hour at the Brussels North station (where we filled our morning with a hot cuppa Starbucks and a croissant), we took another Flixbus to Luxembourg, a tiny country with the third highest GDP per Capita (2018)! It…

Leap Year #2

I have a penchant for dates. And numbers. And sequences. And today is one such date. 29th February. This is how I started my previous “Leap Year” post. It was written on the 29th of February 2016. Hence, it was only fitting that I start this one the same way. Welcome to my time capsule….

Lille

Ever since I moved to Europe, I have been extremely excited to travel. I think its a tie between my newfound independence and the convenience of the continent. Everything is so close – 2 hours and you are in a different country! I think this effect is more profound for me because I come from…

Düsseldorf

When you last left, we were still in Cologne. Tired from a day filled with sight-seeing, we had crashed in our hostel beds. We woke up leisurely in the morning, prepared to take the 10:25 am bus back home. However, staying true to our form, even though we got up in time, we managed to…

Köln

Cologne or Köln is the fourth most populous city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. It is also the largest city on the Rhine, the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube – I visited her in Budapest!), which starts in Switzerland, flowing mostly northerly through Germany and the Netherlands, ultimately…

An Ode to Orkut

(I sorted my email on “Oldest First” and this was one of the many gems I unearthed) Orkut officially closes on 30th September 2014. So let’s take a trip down the memory lane. Here is my way of bidding farewell to my favorite social networking site. My first and last love. (As far as sites…

Antwerpen

Antwerp is the second most populous city in Belgium after Brussels, situated on the river Scheldt (which runs through northern France, western Belgium and southwestern part of the Netherlands and roughly the name is derived from Old English sceald, which means shallow). I was there for a quick day trip – we took an early…

(Zen)sitive

i have never had any trouble with feeling something.anger. pain. jealously. pride. love. vanity. gratitude. regret.you name it, i have felt it. i don’t just simply feel it, i experience it.i live each of my emotions not as transient moments buta lifetime. it is exhausting and time taking yet simply exhilarating.i wear my heart on…

12 (Months | Learnings)

The past year gave me quite some time to reflect and retrospect. Here is a list of my top 12: The probability of actualization of a dream is not proportional to the intensity of your feelings about it. You may have worked to the best of your abilities, you may have sung lullabies of Law…

Stuck on You

I am stuck on you. Usually, people feel bad when they don’t put in true effort for something because they know they could have performed better. Some, on the other hand, chide themselves for the things they couldn’t accomplish even though they gave it their absolute best. They go over it, again and again in…