May 2022 It’s almost unreal to walk into the New York Cafe, mostly because it’s the most unexpected place to find in Budapest. Iron Curtain severity co-mingles uneasily with pre-war splendour, as ornate palaces tower over retro box-car trams trundling across Soviet bridges made of iron. Everywhere the old and the older stand with the…
Category: travel diary
Mapusa Market
A sunny Friday spent at my most favourite market in the world: Mapusa Market in Goa! Old Goenche aunties, black jaggery and chorice, bread and chillies…..I never want to leave…..
Iftaar at Kausar Baug, Pune
A delicious food walk for Iftaar, during the muslim Holy Month of Ramzan, right here in Pune.
Chandor – an era vanquished
A monsoon afternoon spent soaking in the atmosphere and beauty of one of South Goa’s most beautiful Portuguese mansions, the Menezes Braganza home in Chandor.
Goa: heritage quarter Fontainhas
a sunny morning spent meandering around Panjim Goa’s heritage Latin quarter, Fontainhas.
Hortus botanicus
a day spent soaking in the beauty of the 375 year old Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam
Mamushka
Of Hot chocolate and Russian tea rooms in South America
Cookbook ❤️
the magic of Madhur Jaffrey can be distilled into this beautiful, epic book about Indian Food
Patagonia- the last wild place
Patagonia……. Need I say more?
Travels with my daughter
Travels with my only child taught me more about life than anything else. the best kind of trips happen with my daughter, now a young woman.