November 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

This post is part of a series of travelogues narrating my trip to Russia. Here are the other posts and pictures! « Previous post: Stalin’s Seven Sisters | Next post: Russian Orthodox Church Bells » Things to do in Moscow’s artist’s block Arbat Street is a 1.25km pedestrian mall and is one of Moscow’s most [...]...
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November 24, 2009 | 8 Comments

‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. Lets go Raptors Toronto Raptors is a professional basketball team based in the city and part of the NBA (National Basketball Association) based in USA. The team was established quite recently, in 1995. I am not someone [...]...
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November 21, 2009 | 15 Comments

This post is part of a series of travelogues narrating my trip to Russia. Here are the other posts and pictures! « Previous post: GUM, the Soviet Department Store | Next post: Arbatskaya Ulitsa » Seven most prominent buildings of Moscow The “Seven Sisters” is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers [...]...
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November 19, 2009 | 10 Comments

This post is part of a series of travelogues narrating my trip to Russia. Here are the other posts and pictures! « Previous post: Lenin, in Post-Communist Russia | Next post: Stalin’s Seven Sisters » The communist ideal of the past has radically changed to a symbol of flourishing capitalism Red Square: Kremlin to your [...]...
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November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments

‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. Fallen leaves End of fall is near and you can see in the pictures that most leaves have now fallen, forming a carpet of dry leaves all over the city. I cut through this park (Northwest corner [...]...
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November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

My Bangalore (India) based travel-crazy mates Arun and Lakshmi have designed yet another for travelers, by travelers weekend excursion to Coorg, a place full of green hills, misty rivers, lost monuments and an endless fabric of coffee plantations. More information about the trip on Arun’s blog, Lakshmi’s blog or their joint-venture Travelwise On that same [...]...
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November 10, 2009 | 15 Comments

‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. Shorter days, longer nights and lots of sneezing So, what season is it right now in Toronto? Autumn? No. Winter? No!! Its the “fall-sick” season. People are taking days off, sitting home and drenching paper tissues (called [...]...
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November 5, 2009 | 13 Comments

This post is part of a series of travelogues narrating my trip to Russia. Here are the other posts and pictures! « Previous post: Pereslavl Zalessky and the journey back to Moscow | Next post: GUM: The Soviet Department Store » Communism might be a thing of the past, but the presence of Lenin still [...]...
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