A Day at the Museum in Bonn

Last Thursday was a gloomy day weather-wise but we felt like going somewhere and taking pictures, so we drove into Bonn to check out the Rheinisches Landesmuseum (Rhineland Regional Museum). It was FANTASTIC. The museum is in a very modern, brightly lit building (opened in 2003) and focuses exclusively on local exhibits from all[...]

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by Jour ~ Tuesday, January 29, 2008 0 comments

Belur - Chennakesava Temple

This is a story that is set 1000 years ago..The story of South India and the various dynasties that ruled over us..There were no sovereign states or boundaries as we know now ..The Cholas, the Cheras, the Pallavas, the Pandyas, the Chalukyas, the Gangas, the Hoysalas, the Rashtrakutas,[...]

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by Jour ~ Monday, January 28, 2008 0 comments

On the Hoysala Trail

" Hoy Sala " ( Strike Sala ! ) said the guru Sudatta Muni to his student , Sala who was in an armed combat with a tiger that had entered a temple. The student struck the animal in one blow, immortalizing himself and his victim . The guru was so pleased that he asked Sala to establish[...]

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by Jour ~ Monday, January 28, 2008 0 comments

Maria Laach Abbey

Over the last couple weeks we've made two visits to Maria Laach, which happily is just a 30-minute drive down the Autobahn from our home in Bonn. Maria Laach is a little lakeside resort that centers on a magnificent Romanesque abbey church. I learned about the church only recently, in my Oxford History of Early Medieval Architecture[...]

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by Jour ~ Monday, January 28, 2008 0 comments

Shettihalli- a church submerged in water

My weekend getaway was quite a different experience. A visit to a coffee plantation( No-Not Coorg) was not just about long walks in the estate, or watching picking and pulping of coffee seeds or even getting lost in the many species of birds that were fluttering high. . It promised[...]

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by Jour ~ Monday, January 21, 2008 0 comments

Life and lifeless in Bangalore

Nature has a way of portraying the different facets of life, the contrast between being full of life and bereft of the same. Its amazing how both these perspectives are in the same location . Sankey lake, Bangalore[...]

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by Jour ~ Sunday, January 13, 2008 0 comments