Sweden & Finland: Stockholm to Helsinki
🇸🇪 🇦🇽 🇫🇮 Stockholm - Aland Island - Turku - Tampere - Helsinki
Norway: Bergen
🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 The weekend gateaway started on a Friday night, around 2 hour flight from London Gateweek to Bergen. Bergen is city on Norways southwestern coast and 2nd largest city in Norway. The bergen airport is quite small and faraway from city but a direct bus from airport to city center takes us directly to Radisson Blue Norge. Next day was 30th April , incidentally Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon (FBCM) was scheduled that day . The city was brimming with people with participants from all over the world. The day started taking a…
Epic Trans-Siberian : St. Petersburg to Vladivostok Part – 3
🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 Irkustsk - Ulan Ude - Vladivostok
Epic Trans-Siberian : St. Petersburg to Vladivostok Part – 2
🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 Kazan - Yekaterinburg - Irkutsk
Petra
🇯🇴 🇯🇴 🇯🇴 We arrived Petra by car from Wadi-Rum. It was less than 2 hrs journey . We checked - in to our hotel and our first stop was "Petra - By - night". Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week entire Siq to the Treasury was lit with over 1,500 candles. It is a magical way to see part of the rock city by candlelight and explore the old city. This was our Day 2 in Petra. We planned to spend the entire day walking in Petra. This is one of the most…
Prague
🇨🇿 🇨🇿 🇨🇿 It was an extended weekend trip to Prague and Munich. This is considered one of the most beautiful cities of the world brimming with cultural sites. Our hotel was very close to the town square . This is a historic square. The elegant tower of the Town Hall with the world famous astronomical clock, the proud silhouette of the fairy-tale Týn Cathedral, the monumental Church of St. Nicholas and countless multicolored houses of many styles lend this place a unique atmosphere. Charles Bridge is a historic bridge that crosses the Vltava…
Assam
🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 It was a short trip of few days to visit my in-laws place. I stayed in a resort at Tinsukia for a day. I also went to Dibru Saikhowa national park and saw river Dolphins and few species of birds. This area is also famous for feral horses. After returning to Jorhat, I visited Digboy , Asia's oldest oil refinery. I also visited Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary. This Sanctuary contains India's only gibbons – the hoolock gibbons, and Northeastern India's only nocturnal primate – the Bengal slow loris. Dibru Saikhowa national park Hoollongapar Gibbon…
Florence – Second time
🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 This was my second time in Florence . Florence is the cultural capital of Italy . We stayed in hotel very near to Duomo. I climbed to the top of Duomo and view over the Florence skyline was amazing. Later I visited Uffizi gallery , the largest and most visited museum of the world housing largest Italian Renaissance. This 19th century piazza has undoubtedly the best panoramic view of Florence. The square is decorated with copies of Michelangelo's sculptures, but it's the view people come here to see. We visited the…
Italy – Venice
🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 This was my second trip to Italy after 2008 and first to Venice. It was a short trip for 4 days. Just the day of my trip I got some rash which quickly turned out to be chicken pox. My flight was to Venice. I arrived Venice by morning flight. My hotel was within old town square and walking distance from Rialto bridge. Today we spend our day mostly on visiting various sights in town. We visited bell tower, St . Mark Basillica and Doge's Palace. We also walked around small…
Ireland – Killarney to Cork
🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 Day 4 Today was the last day in Ireland. We woke up in the morning , took bath and got ready early enough for the breakfast.Breakfast was served at 8:00am and we had ordered for 2 Irish breakfast. This time the breakfast was best out of all 3 days as was the hotel. It consisted of milk, cereals, toast with butter and jam, juices, poached eggs, sausages, ham, bacon and black and white Irish meat puddings. It was heavy and very tasty. After the meal we decided to venture outside our…