Shanghai – A Travelogue Shanghai had long been one of my bucket list items. Hugely influenced by James Clavell as he described it in ‘Noble House and ‘Taipan’, Shanghai has always held the allure of mystery and romance for me in my imagination. I had been to Beijing before and…
Egg On My Face: Travelogues
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The Chocolate Train – A Travelogue Switzerland’s Chocolate Train is a tour that is eagerly anticipated by children and adults alike. I left Fribourg on a crisp and somewhat chilly morning, to reach Montreux by 8.30am. The train, which looks rather grand in its black and golden avatar, leaves at…
Japan: Enlightening And Enriching Experience I particularly liked Kyoto and would like to go back there some day, although I’d be hard pressed to tell you why. Perhaps it was that it was warmer (the vibes, definitely not the weather! Was bloody five degrees!) and friendlier? Perhaps that one got…
Vietnam: Do(n)gone it! To be honest, Vietnam happened to me for the flimsiest of reasons. It wasn’t on my bucket or even basin, list! I just had air miles to cash in on and figured, why not Vietnam, given my penchant for a nomadic lifestyle. Somewhere, I also had a…
Koh Kood: Falling Off The Edge Of The World Koh Kood is certainly not for the fainthearted, for those who want to live on a Barbie and Ken toyland kind of island! Kood is the farthest island in the east of Thailand, on the Thai-Cambodian border. There are approximately two…
Lot Mayom is a floating market frequented primarily by the Thais and thus, it’s off the usual beaten tourist track. In spite of having lived in Bangkok for so long, I’d never even heard of it, until recently when a Thai lady happened to comment disdainfully that Chatuchak was as…
Were it not for a chance remark by Stephen, I wouldn’t have learned about Artist House. Talking on this and that, he mentioned casually, in passing, that there was some Thai artist who had taken over a house on the Chaophraya river which had now become a little-known tourist attraction….
I don’t mind admitting I was in two minds about Krabi. On one hand, I’d never visited and was curious about checking it out. On the other, I met some British tourists in Koh Phangan, who told me Krabi wasn’t really worth it and that Koh Samui was an infinitely…
Koh Samet – also known as Koh Samed – is another neat little island fairly close to Bangkok, toward the east. It’s in Rayong province, just a little over two hours from Pattaya and four hours from Bangkok. Since I’m already in Pattaya, the plan is to go on further…
‘Egg on my Face’ is titled thus as my tribute to PG Wodehouse, that literary artist and most eminent of writers, someone who has oft lifted me out of myself and cheered me up without fail no matter how bleak life was looking. When I set up the travel page…