May 22, 2011 | 15 Comments

The first time I traveled outside India was in December 2006. My flight from Mumbai to Toronto had a four hour layover at London's Heathrow airport, making England (UK) the first foreign soil that I stepped on (albeit only at the airport, but that counts, right?).
I felt I was in some exotic place - everything was written in English and there were white people everywhere. The announcements ...
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July 9, 2009 | 34 Comments

Aeroflot, the Russian airline, is infamous for many reasons ranging from customer service to flight safety. Here are some of my thoughts about it....
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May 19, 2009 | 17 Comments

Volume 1, Edition 16 ‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. Earlier today I was hanging out at the Toronto ferry docks and the city’s small airport was nearby. It’s actually on an island few hundred meters from the coast. Smaller commercial flights and [...]...
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October 7, 2008 | 47 Comments

This blog post is part of my Israel travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Jaffa – my last stop in Israel My plane too off the runway and as I watched the land of Israel from my window growing smaller and smaller, I inadvertently found saying to myself: “येतो मी…” (yeto mee) – [...]...
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June 5, 2008 | 7 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Highlights| Next post: Miraflores The flight last night was a long but entertaining one thanks to my neighbor, i.e. person sitting next to me in the flight. A herbologist (I never met one before) from BC, she was hilarious [...]...
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January 10, 2008 | 5 Comments

This blog post is part of my Israel travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Israel ItineraryNext post:First evening in the Old City Finally I start narrating the story 20 December: Canada to Israel Someone told me that El Al (एल आल) terminals are always located at the end of the airport, because they [...]...
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