Driving to Murud on Sunday morning from Kashid, I had the sense that I was traveling back in time. Small sleepy hamlets all along the way, not fully awake but for the early morning fisher folk on the roads and children learning to ride the bicycle, swinging dangerously in the middle of the lane, cattle [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Moored in Murud-Janjira
Posted in Maharshtra weekends on May 1, 2006 | 10 Comments »
Weekend bliss in Kashid
Posted in Maharshtra weekends on May 1, 2006 | 6 Comments »
A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours – J. B. Priestley. I smiled as I read this and cltr-c-ctrl-v’d it on the side-bar of my travel blog. This weekend at Kashid was just one such holiday.
Kashid – three hours from where we live, [...]
Itchy Feet
Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey - Pat Conroy
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing" - Daniel J. Boorstin
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware - Martin Buber
A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours - J. B. Priestley
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort - Aldous Huxley
Categories
- Bangkok diary (1)
- Cambodia notes (4)
- Cities that never sleep (17)
- Colors of the desert (13)
- DesiPundit (37)
- Dubai (3)
- East by Northeast (2)
- Go Goa! (3)
- Heritage notes (12)
- Kerala greens (8)
- Life is a beach (3)
- Maharshtra weekends (13)
- Moving around (11)
- Published (33)
- Pure photography (2)
- Stories from Sikkim (9)
- The hills are alive (7)
- This and that (49)
- Turkish delights (4)
- UK-London (8)
- Unhappy feet (3)
-
Recent travels
-
Road Blog @ flickr
More Photos More about me
In the past
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- March 2005
- January 2005
- January 2004
- December 2003
