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…
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I was in London last week after a long gap of 20 months (this time as a tourist taking my mom and wife around the places). On the very first day we landed in London, the first place I took…
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Balmoral Hotel, a five star luxury hotel, is a prominent landmark in Edinburgh. This Victorian style building is more than 100 year old hotel and the clock in this hotel’s 190 feet high clock tower is set 3 minutes faster…
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It is blasphemy, if you don’t visit a castle when you are in the land of castles. After many postponements, finally I paid a visit to Crathes castle, near Banchory in the Aberdeenshire. This sixteenth century castle was built by…
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Along with the London Underground, tourist attractions and landmarks, one more thing which attracted me was people. Being a buzzing tourist city, one get to see different kind of people – from all over the world, of all colours, age,…
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Spring, the season of growth, is here. Clear sky with scattered clouds has taken over the dull, grey sky of winter. There is an essence of cheeriness all over. Trees and plants turning green with chirping of birds hopping from…
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Here is the second set of glimpses of landmarks of London. (Click here for the first set) St Paul’s Cathedral, which stood as the tallest building of London for 250 years from 1710 to 1962. St Paul’s Cathedral in the…
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For rookie or recreational tourists, any major tourist place means a set of well known landmarks. Travel plan for them revolves around these predefined stop-overs. Weekends during my six-month-long stay at London meant roaming aimlessly around the buzzing city. Here…
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