Kishore and I made our much-planned 11-day trip to Goa end-September. We knew that the trip was going to be dominated by activities surrounding our flat’s makeover but we were still looking forward to it as in our search for houseware, it was going to bring Goa’s local markets/produce closer to us. On the previous … Continue reading Goa – Once More!
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Goa based discoveries
Recent Travels — Manali-Naggar and Goa
The last two months gave me opportunities to revisit Manali/Vashisth/Naggar in Himachal Pradesh and Goa! This post goes over some of that experience and offers some helpful bits of info for people to use. Manali/Vashisth – June 08 This was our first self-driven trip to Manali and Naggar. The drive was expected to be longer … Continue reading Recent Travels — Manali-Naggar and Goa
Goa – Part II – Bird-watching
Armed with birding reports from the net, I’d meant to cover some birding hotspots of Goa over our 7-day stay in March 2008. The actual birding experience turned out to be lukewarm because we weren’t lucky with our bird guides in two places and it became clear that bountiful birding required multiple visits to the … Continue reading Goa – Part II – Bird-watching
Goa experience in March 2008 – Part I–Hotels and Roads
Goa isn’t that far from Delhi/Gurgaon but it took us about 8 years to bring it back to our travel schedule. I’d made the first trip when Kabir was a 3-year old toddler and Kishore had a 3-day seminar to conduct at the International Centre. My second trip was a few years ago when web … Continue reading Goa experience in March 2008 – Part I–Hotels and Roads