Travel Diaries Thailand and poetry

So here is another travel post with a side of cheesy poetry :)

Sometime back we went to a place called Thailand

It was peaceful, it was pretty, the people there were nice and witty

The food was yummy the weather was sunny, life in Thailand was sweet like honey

The sunsets were like a screensaver and of all this my friend, we are very much in favor.

So the moral of the poem is that we reallyyyyyyyyyyy love the place!!!

On to the pics

Dress: Gift

Sandals: Promod

Sunglasses: Zara

What did I say about sunsets!

Maximizing

As you must have guessed by the title we have a maxi dress ootd today.

I love maxi dresses they are sooo comfortable almost like wearing pajamas and don't look sloppy either.
In the extremely hot and humid Singapore I find maxi dresses to be  my choice whenever I have to be outdoors for some time.

So without much ado here it is
There is just one pic cause I was having way too much fun on the trip to get outfit pics clicked.

Maxi Dress: Forever New

Sandals: Zara

Earrings: Very old

Pendant: Ogaan

Bracelet: Forever New

The second pic is there just cause I love it :)

Monsoons in Goa

Last week husband had 2 days off so decided to head off to Goa for a mini vacation


What we did there was drink,eat,read,swim,sleep precisely in this order though we sometime made do with only drinking and no eating ;)


I was a bit skeptical about the trip initially but the skepticism was for naught,
Goa in monsoons is heavenly, my eyes hurt with seeing so much green and off season meant less people, which is always a bonus if you live in Mumbai 


When we go on a small vacation the stress is completely on relaxation and usually we don't venture out of the resort so all the pics have been clicked in the resort only, means don't expect to see pics of usual goa spots 

Resort grounds

   What did I say about less people, see the almost empty beach bliss!!!!

Here I did not mind the rains at all it, gave me an excuse to drink more tea :)

Top: Express

Pants: Zara

Never thought of myself as a tea drinker but apparently I am 

Featured here Assam Dikom tea 

This balcony was my fav. place in the resort because of the view and the solitude, we used to sit here every afternoon drinking tea, reading books

Here's the view from our tea drinking perch

Will share rest of the pics in subsequent posts now I am logging in to bloglovin and reading all the blogs 

Hope everybody had a good week 

I blog again

I have been a bad blogger I know but I needed to sort out somethings and now that everything's settled I am back to blogging
Here are the rest of the pics from my now seeming long time ago trip,already I am itching to take a break and with the rain gods smiling on us here in Mumbai it might happen soon :)
I did visit all my regular reads but wasn't able to comment will be back to doing it now
And here is Venice and me of course

A random canal

Grand Canal the main street of Venice

You do remember who this is right!!!

Bridge of Sighs now with a toyota ad on the wall, the blue thing that you can see

On Rialto bridge

Recommend eating here amazing food and wine

Stylish traveler  

Unfortunately I did not take any pics in Milan so this is it 

Trip Diaries- Roma

Hope everybody had a good weekend mine was good not great just good 

good is better than bad so not complaining

one thing I am complaining about is "no good movies releasing" why oh why is that???

things have become so bad that watching "Thor the hammer"makes me happy 

So we have decided to watch old movies and tonight it's "Carlito's Way" you can't go wrong with Al Pacino, Sean Penn and a crime thriller can you?

I hope I am not wrong or it will have to be The real housewives ........ tonight and husband won't like that, not good for the marriage na na

Ok so enough with the drama and we can get to the the Italian Part of our trip the better part I would say 

Yes in my not so humble opinion Italy is way better than Paris so here we go

 Need I tell you it's The Colosseum 

Colosseum again

Ancient Rome it also has the Roman Forum where Julius Caesar was assassinated

Throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain, you do that to ensure you return to Rome and I definitely want to return

Monument to Victor Emanuele the first king of unified Italy

Eating the 3rd Gelato of the day, don't judge me my husband forced me to eat it ;)  

Rome for us was the best part of the trip and given a chance I would gladly return there every year

I am not eloquent enough to express my feelings so i am letting Stanely Moss do it for me

Return to Rome

Today in Rome, heading down   

Michelangelo’s Spanish Steps,   

under an unchanging moon,   

I held on to the balustrade,

grateful for his giving me a hand.   

All for love, I stumbled over the past

as if it were my own feet. Here, in my twenties,

I was lost in love and poetry. Along the Tiber,

I made up Cubist Shakespearean games.   

(In writing, even in those days,

I cannot say it was popular to have “subjects”

any more than painters used sitters. But I did.)

I played with an ignorant mirror for an audience:

my self, embroiled with personae

from Antony and Cleopatra. Delusions of grandeur!

They were for a time my foul-weather friends—

as once I played with soldiers

on the mountainous countryside of a purple blanket.

Finito!!!

Trip Diary

Been back for two days now and have not done any posts about it till now cause I have been wondering how to put all my experiences into words.
This trip was special in many ways as I have always had a fascination with roman history and the romantic in me always wanted to visit Venice(which is not that romantic actually) and I spoke the language :)
which was very helpful while ordering all the gelati(stuck to the rule of two) which is: eating 2 gelati a day whenever you are in Italy and the good thing is you can not gain weight here cause of the walking you have to do win win :)
So all in all the place is great, people wonderful a bit like Indians actually and the food out of this world, now I don't see any reason why anyone would not want to visit it; so do it the first chance you get and ya throw in a bit of Paris and it's perfect


And here come the pics, would not be writing about any monument or place's history but clicking on the name will open the Wikipedia page for it if you want to read about it
I will give my take on everything  of course :)


We started the trip in paris 

Visiting Louvre  god the museum is so huge but we managed to see most of it my favorite piece was the  Victory of Samothrace  

I loved the Eiffel Tower it's beautiful which I never associated with it till I actually saw it

Wandering the streets enjoying the weather  

Paris at night 

Being together with my husband in the city of love

and endless other things like the bustling Latin quarter, the opera, macaroons and the amazing hot chocolate

What do you associate with paris??

I am back

I am back from my awesomely fabulistic vacation and can't wait to share the experiences with you guys
here's a preview of things to come 

Going to catch up on my blog reading now 
have a good week :)

Wine Fest and an OOTD

Hey All,
Hope everybody had a rocking weekend like mine, we visited the sula wine fest and had loads of fun: wine tasting,great bands and hoards of fashionably dressed people, whats not to love!!!!
I am so happy such events are happening, gives a welcome break from the movie,dinner,shopping routine and today am going off to a arts festival in our city :)
And here are a couple of pics I managed to click in between the fun and masti time

On the way to Nashik, the highway was beautiful,

 plan to do this again soon

One of the performances, this was by a band called "something relevent" my favorite amongst all

And that's us of course

Here's an OOTD clicked yesterday

Top: ASOS

Jeans :Vero Moda

Necklace: Aldo

Bye for now and have a great week everyone

I love this cat

hello all,
I am in New York enjoying the finishing fall, there are no winters in Mumbai and I looooooooooove the weather here
Also, happy Halloween everybody hope you had fun
my day was awesome, though it had nothing to do with Halloween and everything to do with mountains, snow flakes, great conversation , fall colors and the list goes on :) I am so happy today
 of course I have pics

Can you guess the place????
 I think I have given enough hints

Travel Diaries New Zealand - 2 Queens Town

This is the part 2 of New Zealand travel post,  for the uninitiated read the first part here
After Dunedin it was off to queens town through the southern scenic route which is a bit longer but scenic so that decided it for us.

On the way(Dunedin to queens town) its a journey of 8 hrs but the drive is a breeze and there are lots of cafes and farms where you can stop have coffee, buy fruits and freshly made ice cream 

This was taken at clyde dam, which is also a camping site

On the shore of lake Wakatipu in Queens town,its 5 min of walking distance from city center, in the background are Remarkable mountains where LOTR was shot. People of NZ are so lucky they get a chance to live in the midst of such beauty,

 ya I am totally jealous

I did bungee jumping well to be honest its called swing but it did involve jumping off a cliff,

and it was on my bucket list :) the last structure is from where you jump and I did it twice 

This is the city center with an Indian restaurant in the backdrop, I do love different cuisines but after a week of non Indian food,I do feel like having something spicy and familiar but NZ has Indian restaurants in every major city so not a problem.

Queens Town is called the adventure capital of the world and you can do all kinds of sports here, we did only bungee and jet boating, but there are tonnes of other options, trekking, kayaking, canoe, boat cruise etc.... so basically something for everyone.

Will cover Milford Sound in the next post supposedly the most beautiful place in NZ.

Have a great Monday :)

Kerala Diaries 2: Kumarakom

This post will cover  Kumarakom, it’s a small village in Kerala near Kottayam town but quite famus because of the back waters and Vembanad lake.

Kumarakom is 6 hrs from Munnar but the drive is very scenic and I enjoyed it a lot, such clean air that my city bred lungs were shouting out with joy.

Taj Kumarakom

The resort is on the shore of Vembanad Lake and has a lagoon inside it, in which you can do fishing and boating. Did you notice the color of the cottage, most of the houses we saw on the way were such brightly colored ones, seems people prefer such colors.

The Gazebo

Posing at the jetty

A woman from the village lighting diyas(oil lamps made from clay) all around the lagoon

This is what it looked like after diya lighting ceremony

I think this dance form is called mohiniattam

  I liked this background with the bright yellow bungalows 

My new fav shoes

Backwaters, these are small canals that actually serve as a road in the villages and are a major mode of transportation.

There are houses on either side of the canal and all the canals connect to the lake

Vembanad Lake, which is the longest lake in India and one of the largest in India. You can also do over night  or day cruise on the lake which is a very popular option.

Wanted to finish the post on a happy note cause thats how I feel after my trip :):)

p.s in case you have any queries about these two places feel free to ask.