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Flashback 2011

January 8, 2012 Prashanth M Others

I tried hard not to write ‘year that was’, but couldn’t contain myself. Hesitation to not write was due to two main reasons – one, travel took a back seat though I flew to a different continent in the beginning…

Cricket: Edged and taken

January 4, 2012 Prashanth M England

Cricket to an Indian is what weather to a British – a conversation starter. If I’ve to be a bit superlative, I can say Cricket runs in most of the Indians’ blood. For a person like me who is one…

Catalina, the flying boat

December 26, 2011 Prashanth M Scotland

More than the display of Vulcans and F16s at the Luechars airshow, what interested me more was the slowest of all the planes, Catalina. Used widely during World War 2, the Consolidated PBY Catalina is a flying boat – capable…

Leuchars Airshow

September 26, 2011 Prashanth M Scotland

Despite staying in Bangalore for a long time, I never managed to go to Aero India, a biennial airshow held in Yelahanka Air force station, Bangalore. When I got to know about airshow by Royal Air Force at Luechars, I…

I Was Here: Mattu beach

September 19, 2011 Prashanth M I Was Here

I was in Mattu beach in first week of March 2008 during my bike ride to West coast. I was not aware of the name of the beach when I visited and quite recently got to know that it’s called…

Statues and the sea gulls

September 15, 2011 Prashanth M England, Scotland

One of the common sights one gets to see in cities and towns of England and Scotland is statues. Statues of Kings & Queens, Dukes & Duchesses, royal family members, war heroes, prominent historical personalities, literary giants and many more….

Edinburgh castle

September 9, 2011 Prashanth M Scotland

My first visit to Edinburgh was two years ago on supposed be a summer weekend. But I was greeted by cold wind and it was a completely overcast. An optimum day for me to do anything else but go out…

A unique audio guide

September 7, 2011 Prashanth M England

One of the common sights while visiting museums or castles is, most of the visitors walking around with audio guides glued held on to their ears (which looks like as if everyone one is talking on cellphone). Put the strap…