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Episode 4: The Five Villages of CinqueTerre I am home now! Almost always busy with work and daily chores. This Sunday I sat idling for sometime trying to recollect the experiences that I had at Cinque Terre . Well, the trip had been exceptional and Cinque Terre stands out in my memory for its ethereal natural beauty. A cluster of Five small yet popular villages, this place is cut right out from a beautiful dream! Being from one of the largest thriving metropolitan cities in the world, when I travel to other cities and marvel at their structures and progress I still feel at home. But travelling through beautiful villages with lush vegetation and the emerald blue sea..it was truly a one-of-a-kind experience. So I threw myself back by almost 3 weeks, in my mind it felt surreal to have gone to a place like that! We had registered for a trek through the five villages of Cinque Terre through a website, that my partner had come across and found great reviews about. Walkabout ...

Episode 3:Day 2 In Love with Rome! Ask any ardent traveller, and they will tell you that you have only seen a place well if you have mingled with the locals and fellow travellers, tried to emulate the way they travel and/or eat. Most often than not they stay over in a new location for prolonged periods of times only for this experience. Well, I for one had a job waiting back at home 2000 miles away where I had to show my face in a few weeks. So my partner and I,  had to explore the beautiful country and feel it up, be the tourist and the traveler all at once. And when I look back I can gladly say that our Italian sojourn was nothing less of a lovely adventure!  Our trip to Naples and Pompei on Day 1 was fascinating. The kind of places we saw and the food we ate blew up our minds! To read about our time in Southern Italy check the link  , and about our Pompei day trip you may find some interesting facts in this link .       Our time in ...

Roman Diaries Episode 1: Limoncello, Agamemnon and the Pompei Selfie When you travel 18 hours over 6500 kilometres and across 3 continents to Rome from Mumbai and are generally pretty jet lagged, you sleep well and get some rest. Well let’s just say if we had done that I wouldn't be writing this story.                                                           First aerial view before landing After landing at 2 pm and immediately putting in a 5+ km walk to Vatican and back we decided on a travel plan starting at the wee hours of the morning like all crazy travelers. Day started with getting up at 5:30 in the morning still half dead, scampering to the Termini and finding ourselves waiting in front of the closed doors of the empty train compartment with a couple of nuns and 3 giggly European girls for company. It was 6:27 am and the ...