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Ireland – Killarney

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:August 23, 2012
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Ireland 🇮🇪Luxury / Comfort travel

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 Day 1 It was a cloudy morning of 24th august 2012 (Friday) when we started for our Ireland trip. The weekend being a long one with a bank holiday on Monday we decided to seize the opportunity for a trip to Ring of Kerry on the south of Ireland. Our flight with Ryanair was at 15:20 from Stansted airport in London to Kerry airport in Ring of Kerry reaching at 16:45. Reaching Stansted from Barking was not that smooth as the Easy bus stop in Baker street was not that easy…

Ireland : Skellig Michael boat trip

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:August 16, 2012
Post category:Adventure Europe 🌍Ireland 🇮🇪Sea / River / Waterbody travel

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 Day 3 Valentia island - Skellig Michael - Waterville We woke up fresh and energetic after a good rest the next day. The breakfast served in this hotel was not that good and quantity as also less. it consisted of just an egg and a slice of bacon with a slice of toast and juice. We had a long day ahead of us and had expected to have a good breakfast before starting off our trip to Skellig Michael as we knew we wouldn't get any food up there till we come…

Montreux – Rochers de Naye

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:December 22, 2011
Post category:Adventure Europe 🌍Hilly /Mountains Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 It was a cold and windy night when we started on our journey to Switzerland. Coming out of our apartment, we could feel the chill wind rattling our bones. My hubby looked into his watch n said, “It’s already 3 am and we are late.” So we hurried down the road to catch our night bus towards Heathrow airport. After a sleepy journey of nearly 2 hrs we reached the airport and found that check-in counters do not open before 6:00am. My hubby explained, in London, unlike in India flights do…

Lucerne : Mount Pilatus and Mount Titlis

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 21, 2011
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Luxury / Comfort Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 We stayed Lucerne for two days. First day was we visited mount Titlis. We took train to to Engelberg then walked down to the cable car. Engelberg - Titlis cable car goes up to Titlis with a change at Trübsee. From Trübsee the rotating gondolas "Titlis Rotor" took us to the top. The weather was not great . It was cloudy that day so view from top was not very clear. The glacier cave is only a snowball's throw from the mountain station. The glistening, blue ice tunnel leads deep down into the fascinating…

The Golden Pass Express

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:October 20, 2011
Post category:Europe 🌍Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 Switzerland has numerous luxury trains. One of the popular one is "The Golden Pass" , from Montreux to Lucerne . We boarded it of Montreux to Interlaken and stayed 1 night at Interlaken . This section train climbs to the highest point of the entire Golden Pass line, near Saanenmöser, at 1279 and soon after it leaves French speaking part and enter the German speaking part of Switzerland. Before Interlaken it continues its way to Spiez, a town at a scenic location along Lake Thun. You can easily see the pyramid shaped Mount Niesen from here.…

Paris

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 30, 2010
Post category:Europe 🌍France 🇫🇷travel

🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 After coming to UK , this was my first trip outside UK. Four of us planned the trip, I, who came to work in UBS from a consulting company called Polaris, Jayesh from Infosys, Gopi and Vinay from Wipro. First step was obtaining a Schengen. Those days embassies used to deal with the Visa applications directly and typically you would get back passport end of the day or next day. Nevertheless , my visa was approved only for 7 days just enough to cover the itinerary. We took the…

Go Ape Grizedale

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:August 21, 2009
Post category:Europe 🌍travel UK 🇬🇧

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Last adventure in our lake district was Go Ape in Grizedale forest. We booked our slot in advance but was running late , finally somehow manged to hitchhike a ride to the forest. "Go Ape" is an outdoor adventure company . From their website "The origins of Go Ape lie in France. Back in 2001, Tris and Becs Mayhew were on holiday in the Auvergne with their six-month old baby and came across a French family swinging through the trees. From the looks on their faces, it was clear both the kids…

Helvellyn walk, The Classic Ridges of Striding and Swirral Edge

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:June 25, 2009
Post category:Europe 🌍travel Trek UK 🇬🇧

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 This climb was part of our Lake district and Blackpool trip. We started early from Ambelside Youth hostel. It took only 20 mins from the hostel. This mythical mountain, standing at 950m, is one of the great mountains of the Lake District. Helvellyn offers walkers the chance to step back in time to rocky terrain and narrow glaciated edges. It is one of England’s four 3000 ft summits and is home of the best ridge walk in Britain – Striding Edge. We began our walk in Glenridding and made our way up…

Italy Pisa and Florence

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 20, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Italy 🇮🇹travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 I left for Pisa from Naples . This was 6 hrs train journey . I walked from station to the complex which was 30 mins walk. Construction for leaning tower of Pisa began in 12 century . This was the place where Galileo conducted his famous experiment by dropping two spheres of different masses to demonstrate gravity. The tower started leaning because of defective foundation and soft soil on one side. Eventually in 1990 restoration work begin and it was stabilized by correcting tilt and further improving the foundation. Florence was 2…

Italy – Naples and Pompeii

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 19, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Landscape Luxury / Comfort travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Only reason I visited and stayed in Naples overnight was to arrange my visit to Pompei and Mount Vesuvius. Though there are few tourist spots within the city, I did not have any time to visit any of those places. Next day my first visit was to Mount Vesuvius. I arranged the trip from official tourism center, however the bus started late and then on the way driver stopped the bus and spent 1 hour smoking an talking over phone. Nevertheless it was a nice little hike from bus stop to…