By Piyushi Dhir
Part I in a series about Sikkim The North-eastern part of India has a certain charm and mystery attached to it. This is probably because it is not widely travelled by the regular Indian tourist or maybe, because it is not easily reachable. We planned to go to Sikkim in the first half of 2014 and […]
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While in Ivory Coast, if you would like to take a visa-free tour to the Vatican, you need not fly down to Italy! Just drive out to Yamoussoukro and enter the premises of the Basilica of our Lady of Peace and you will be on Vatican land. When it was built on the 1980s, the […]
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Living in or visiting Ivory Coast, one may put Assinie, Bassam, San Pedro and even Grand Bereby on one’s list of cities to see. But the tiny settlement of Dimbokro, somewhere between the country’s largest city, Abidjan and the country’s capital city, Yamoussoukro, can easily go unnoticed. After spending over two years in this country, […]
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While my Spanish, French and Mauritian friends are spared the barber’s sharp tools at a tender age, as an Indian baby, I had to undergo mundan during my recent visit to India. This ritual entails the tonsuring of one’s head and the gifting of the hair one brought from within the womb to the Gods. […]
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Last week I told you about how I ran into a great big Punjabi family back home in India. Now, if I’d stayed on in Delhi after my birth, these family members and everything around them would have been regular for me. But, as it happens, I left the country when I was a month […]
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Whenever you don’t hear from me, you can be sure I’m up to something new and exciting. Given my track record, it is highly probable that I’m travelling. After exploring Dubai and gallivanting in Paris, this time I traveled ‘back home’ to India. Everyone calls it home, but given that I’ve lived nine out of […]
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Part 3 in a series on ParisParis is not just a destination for romance and honeymooners, it can offer a great vacation to families too. You can find great places to live in, which are baby-friendly, as long as you know what to look for. Transport within the city, while notorious on several counts, was no […]
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Part 2 in a series on ParisIf you’re planning to go to Paris for a holiday with your infant or toddler, kudos to you! I admire your spirit. My hubby and I took our first post-baby vacation to Paris and it turned out to be a unique holiday. First of all, we learnt that our […]
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Part 1 in a series on ParisIf you’re considering a vacation in Paris with your little ones tagging along, don’t hesitate. We did it and so can you. My hubby and I spent over a week in Paris with our eight month old and one of the best favours we did to ourselves was to […]
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(Diary of an Eight Month Old- contd.)People go to Paris for love, romance, shopping, the Eiffel Tower and French cuisine. What do you expect an eight month old will do there? While my parents tried their best to enjoy Paris on their first post-baby vacation, I tried to make it a vacation they would not […]
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