March 2009 ~ Travel In Home

Nature calls..

There are some moments in life when you realize that the most simple things in life are the ones that we ignore the most, take them for granted and assume that they are always there..They also happen to be the finer things in life which we cannot do without - the birds, the bees, the[...]

by Jour ~ Monday, March 30, 2009 0 comments

Bridges and Rivers

I had not planned to travel in March - in fact I didnt have any destinations or holidays in mind . However, a couple of pilgrimages and family trips took me to into some of India's beautiful places. And I crossed several rivers .They were dry , but the sheer beauty of seeing water in[...]

by Jour ~ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 0 comments

Updated: San Lorenzo, Rome

Our article on San Lorenzo fuori le Mura (St. Lawrence outside the Walls) in Rome has just been updated with lots more information and a gallery of over 100 photos from our visit in April 2008.This basilica stands over the grave of St. Lawrence, a Roman deacon who was martyred by roasting on a gridiron in 258 AD. He famously called[...]

by Jour ~ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 0 comments

In the News: Hatshepsut Found

I got my latest issue of National Geographic in the mail today, and the cover story is an interesting one (but isn't it always?). It reports that the body of Hatshepsut - the female pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 15th century BC - has been discovered!Well actually, the body was discovered a century ago. But it has recently been[...]

by Jour ~ Saturday, March 21, 2009 0 comments

Images of India - On a hot summer day

Of late Ive been driving into rural India more often than once. Almost every trip has taken me into this rustic world where villages and small towns seem to beckon me. This has probably been so over the last six months and probably barring Chennai and Hyderabad, I havent been to[...]

by Jour ~ Wednesday, March 18, 2009 0 comments

Images of India - a drying yard in a coffee estate

I was in Malenadu last week, on my way to Sringeri and we transited through the coffee country - Hassan, Belur, Chikmagalur.If you followed my twitter updates, you would have got a feel of the journey.I was at a couple of coffee estates , which have a colonial feel to them.One of the[...]

by Jour ~ Thursday, March 12, 2009 0 comments

Faces of Chennai

images from the photowalk - You meet many faces when you walk down the road and some stay with yo[...]

by Jour ~ Sunday, March 8, 2009 0 comments

Chennai-moments and monuments

Our photo-walk continues as we walk past the Churches -Wesley and St Andrew's Kirk.It gets hotter, but we pause by capturing a few moments and monuments on the lens.Pink seems to be the flavour of the season - the Govt Arts college and the Egmore station . We continued looking at some[...]

by Jour ~ Monday, March 2, 2009 0 comments