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Kalapathar Beach, Neil island
Baked Goodies, MyFriendAlexa, Travel

Trip Tales -Story of our Andaman Island Vacation Part 1

Travel Lust I should proclaim at the very onset that this post is about our Andaman Island vacation adventures. And the jaggery cookie recipe is a short but sweet return gift. It has been exactly one year since our last family vacation. Yes, you heard it right! It seems one whole year has gone by […]

Gardening, Lifestyle, Travel

March Lily showed us that Patience pays….

Prelude This story goes back to October 2018 when we had visited Sikkim. After an adventurous and mesmerizing trip to North Sikkim (Lachen, Gurudongmar lake, Lachung, Yumthang, Zero point), we came back to Gangtok and stayed there for a couple of days to unwind all the adrenaline rush. During that time, we mainly visited  the […]

Lifestyle, Travel

Jhansi and Sesame street

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the quaint historic city of Jhansi. Jhansi is famous for the brave queen Rani Laxmi Bai. From the first time when I read about her in the history books to last year when I saw the movie Manikarnika,I have always felt like I have to visit Jhansi at […]

MyFriendAlexa, Savoury, Travel

Samosa, a savoury gift to mankind!

The Beginning For me the golden crispy savoury triangles more commonly called samosa( or shingara as my wife calls it) came straight from ‘Heaven’ for the hungry soul. My love tryst with the humble samosa started from my school canteen days. After having our tiffin during lunch hours I used to loiter around the school […]

Lifestyle, Travel

A tram ride in the city of Joy!

Weekend goals It was a saturday. The sky was overcast with a slight drizzle. As usual, the only day to do all other ‘works’ other than office work. It was overloaded that day with usual domestic chores plus an irritating job which was to submit KYC documents to the LPG agency. But wait, before that […]

BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Blogging, Travel, Ultimatebloggingchallenge

Baranti, a picturesque weekend getaway near Kolkata

Inspite of a strong urge for a weekend trip since the last Christmas-New year week, we somehow couldn’t manage to chalk out a plan due to immense work pressure. Adding to it are the limited weekend destinations in and around Kolkata. At last, we managed to plan a short trip on my birthday weekend. Out […]