Category: Travel

• Sunday Stills : Bridges – a link

  

  The prompt for this week’s Sunday Stills is ‘Bridges’. It led me to check my digital albums. Needless to say the photograph brought back wonderful memories and made me realize how quickly time flies. Talking about bridges, there was an article in the newspaper today about a bridge being in urgent need for repair. So…

  Smitha V

  September 24, 2023

  Book Review, Photography, Travel

  #bookreviews, #bridges, #discountedprice, #newoffer, #photgraphy, #poetry, #read, #readers, #Streamofconsciousness, #Sundaystills, #travel

• Calcutta Diaries 3: Dakshineshwar Mandir, Calcutta Diaries: Ramakrishna Math, in and around new town, Thursday doors, Cee’s Photo challenge,

  

  This post brings an end to our stay in Kolkata. We were happy to leave the city because we were eager to return home and had had enough of living out of a suitcase after traveling for 5 weeks. To be fair, Kolkata new town, with its laid back life, restaurants serving tasty food, easy…

  Smitha V

  September 21, 2023

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #belurMath, #calcuttadiaries, #Cee Neuner- Cee’s Photo Challenges, #Cee’s Photo Challenges – Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge CFFC, #culture, #Dakshineshwartemple, #explore, #India, #indian, #photography, #roads, #thursdaydoors, #travelogue, #travelwithfamily

• Calcutta Diaries 2: Park Street, Trincas, Mother House, Indian Museum,Thursday Doors

  

  The Indian Museum in Kolkata is located in downtown Calcutta, on Park street. In Bengali, it is called Shaheb -er Para which translates to ‘neighborhood of the Englishmen’. The street runs through what used to be the deer park (hence the name, Park street) of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Calcutta between…

  Smitha V

  September 14, 2023

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #blogger, #calcutta, #doors, #indianmuseum, #kolkata, #motherhouse, #Parkstreet, #Pilgrimage, #thursdaydoors, #tourist, #travel, #travelogue

• Calcutta diaries 1: Victoria Memorial, St. Paul’s cathedral, Thursday Doors

  

  Calcutta had been on my bucket list ever since we moved to India in 2018. But one thing and another (with 2 years of Covid) and with so many places competing for attention, it was not until July 2023 that I got to visit the city. Who knew moving out of India would not only…

  Smitha V

  September 4, 2023

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #calcuttadiaries, #colonized, #dhaka, #family, #freedomstruggle, #history, #holidaywithfamily, #JosMondaywalk, #kolkata, #photography, #thursdaydoors, #travel, #travelogue, #victoriamemorial

• Norway Diaries 8 : Three days and nights in Flam and Thursday Doors 24.08.23

  

  Day 1 Flam is a village in S.W Norway best known for its fjords. Most tourists spend a day in Flam, taking a trip on the Flam railway and the boat cruise. So, when we told those who’d been to Norway that we were spending 3 nights there, they looked us as though we were…

  Smitha V

  August 24, 2023

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  # Rimstigen, #family, #flam, #gudvangan, #Kjosfossen, #life, #mountains, #nature, #norway, #photograph, #thursdaydoors, #travel, #travelogue, #travelwithfamily, #waterfall