Tulips of Netherlands : Mother’s day special😍

This week, we planned to visit Lisse in the Netherlands to see their famous tulip garden. We live so close geographically and it will be a shame not to visit them before we move to another continent. With my semester ticket, I planned to go to a border town first named Mönchengladbach. From there, we...

Brugge, Belgium

We did a day trip from Bonn to Brugge, me and Ellie. This is no small journey specially for her. We started at 7.30 from Bonn and took RE5 to Köln. And from Köln we took RE9 till Aachen.From there we had and ICE3 , international intercity express from Deutsche Bahn which was very good...

Sigtuna.. where Sweden begins..

In 970, King Erik the Victorious decided where Sigtuna town would be built – a new era in the Swedish history was about to begin… Today we can go back in time and visit medieval churches, ruins, castles and rune stones from the Viking Area. This is where Sweden begins. Sigtuna Rådhus, one of the town's...

Göteborg, Sweden..

Our 2018 Christmas trip was to visit Copenhagen and then I was not able to make my mind whether to take a Cruise to Tallinn from Stockholm or to go to Oslo! In this confusion, I took a bus to Göteborg to take a day to think. We took a Flixbus from Copenhagen train station....

Copenhagen .. Quick tips for a short trip

There are  good hotels and hostels near Central train station. If you are backpacking and travelling by bus like Flix bus, those bus also stop close to the Central station. This area also has many cheap food joints. Two major tourist attraction Tivoli and Tycho Brahe planetarium are very close the central station. We stayed...

Mont Salève, France ..

This time while in Geneva, I wanted to go little outside the main city for short trips. I had only 5 days and most of the city attractions I visited already last time. And there was an unexpected heavy snow fall ! I got a tip from the hostel brochure : visit France  with Geneva...

Salzburg Main square..

We reached Salzburg in a flix bus at 11 o'clock in a cloudy day. We had time till 8 because I did not know about the Db Bahn trains which runs on the same price as bus. We took a city pass and hopped on a bus which dropped us in the salzburg main square....

Bali chronicle5: Mount Batur Sunrise hike

When in Bali, I heard from my friend Tejal, that we can go for a volcano trekking ! I immediately liked the idea because it is going to be my first volcano hike. So we booked the same cab as her and his name is "Ready ".   Ready came to pick us up at...

Bali Chronicle 3 : the hotel

Bali has lots of good options of hotels.  Numerous luxurious hotels, villas and individual houses are rented every day by the travellers. But before going there, my husband showed me some documentaries which shows not all places are safe. In fact lately there has been lots of hue and cry about the death or assault of...

Bali Chronicle 2: Nusa dua and Geger beach

Bali has both elite beaches and beaches for commoners. After roaming around the public beaches of Kuta and Legian, one day we took a taxi off to the private beach of Nusa dua and Geger. From Kuta by taxi it is half an hour and a Grab/ blue bird taxi take around 55000 IDR one...