What does the word ‘summer’ bring to mind? Warm, fuzzy sunshine, long days, lemonade and vacations. Right? Wrong. In Chicago, summer is 13 degrees Celsius, chilly winds and a freezing lakeshore. But people still go swimming, cycling and walking around in shorts. I don’t know how. I generally have to wear a tee shirt and...
Finally, after a long weekend it was time to begin office. It reminded me that am here on work and not on vacation. Smile. Well, I had not slept particularly well the night before and I was really groggy but I had to wake up by 6. My office is on South La Salle Street,...
Monday. A holiday for Memorial Day and we were planning to go see the parade, which was supposed to start at State Street at 12 noon and end at Van Buren. But before that I wanted to get started on my running routine after a break of 10 days or so. Shanghai came with me...
Sunday morning dawned nice and bright but woke me with its chilliness. Today the plan was to go to Navy Pier and walk along the lake front. Another colleague, who stays here with her family, would take us and we would go together. Ok, now for convenience I will name the colleagues who stay with...
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is situated on Cannon Drive, very near to N Orchard Street where am staying. My friend found it on the net and instructed me to visit it as soon as I reach Chicago. So that’s what I did. One of my colleagues accompanied me and we walked it up to...
Hello after a long, long time. I had gone on a Vietnam trip in the middle and I have the travelogue, but haven’t found the time to upload it here. Ah busy life. Well, I thought I can always upload it anytime and meanwhile will write directly from where I am right now. And that’s...
After all my thoughts on Devbagh, here is some info on how to get there. I know there are tons of sites already detailing the same, but here’s my two pence anyway. I took the VRL bus, booked through Redbus, starting at 8.15 pm from Majestic and scheduled to reach Karwar by 7.00 am or...
The temple pillar with the mosque in the background My next day began early at 6.30 with a nature walk around the island, arranged by the resort. The first stop of the walk is at the beach to catch the sunrise and then onward inside the woods where Anil shows us a lot of...
Sunset in Devbagh Devbagh requires only a weekend. Start on a Friday and come back by Monday morning. But time stops still in this place. For me it stopped on Saturday morning when I entered my cottage on this peaceful island. Devbagh, literally means “God’s Garden” and I am wont to think that I...
The woods are lovely… Devbagh happened for the first time in February last year, when my friends and I went there for the first time. To put it simply we fell in love. Its truly a “paradise” as one of my friends described it, with wooded expanse dotted with cottages giving way to the...
