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Ireland – Killarney to Cork

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:August 29, 2012
Post category:City Europe 🌍Ireland 🇮🇪travel

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 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…

Ireland – Ring of Kerry – Cahersiveen

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:August 24, 2012
Post category:City Europe 🌍Ireland 🇮🇪travel

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 Day 2 Day 2 started with a lavish and mouth watering Irish Breakfast served at the hotel. It consisted of Juices, dry fruit cereals, milk, toasts, sausages, bacons, eggs and white and black puddings (This was the first time I had meat pudding, and it was delicious). After this huge breakfast, we packed off our backpacks and checked out of the hotel. I had planned this day for a tour around the Ring of Kerry with Deros travels. The bus was at 10:00 am and hence we had quite some time…

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…

Luxor: Balloon ride over Kings Valley

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:February 9, 2012
Post category:Adventure Africa 🌍City Egypt 🇪🇬travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Mansoor told me, “you should definitely do a balloon ride in Luxor”. I was not sure ; $150 sounded expensive. He finally convinced me. Next morning at 4 AM a mini bus came to pick us up. They collected people from various hotels and then took us outside city. The ground was huge. All companies operate from here. There were probably close to 100 balloon which were getting ready to be air-borne. We went up at the break of dawn. Weather was cold and bit foggy. It was amazing to watch first rays…

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.…

Niagara falls and Thousand islands

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 23, 2010
Post category:North America 🌎travel USA 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 This was a 2 day tour to thousand islands and Niagara falls. We left by a bus from New York very early morning. We drove to the Thousand Islands, where we took a Boat Tour of the area. The Thousand Islands is an archipelago at the Canada-U.S. border from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 50 miles. The U.S. islands are in the state of New York and the Canadian islands are in Ontario. The smaller islands only have single residences. These boat tours of the unique and impressive Thousand…

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…