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While thinking about the which place to write my next travel story, I sat down one rainy afternoon and with a nice pot of tea gathered a few of my albums; yes I do have the wonderful travel memories printed and arranged in albums. It is quite relaxing to sit back and flip through a proper album and not scroll through a phone or laptop. As I started looking through them, I started recollecting the days of normal travel and how we all enjoyed travelling around the world freely. While we wait for such days to be back, we can also use the time nowRead More →

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In my last travel story I wrote about my visit to Istanbul during the summer of 2019. It is exactly two years ago on the last weekend of July I visited Istanbul for a short break. During my stay in this beautiful city, I spent an entire day exploring the wonderful sights and ended the day enjoying a performance by Sufi mystics at the Hodjapasha Cultural Centre. I was picked up after breakfast from my hotel, and in this travel story I will share brief details of the sights that I visited along with some photos of each. My tour started off from the Hippodrome.Read More →

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In my last travel story about Dusseldorf I mentioned that I took a day trip to Cologne from there. Here I am writing about my memories from that day trip to Cologne. After spending a beautiful day at Dusseldorf and a well deserved rest, the next morning after breakfast, I walked up to Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof. From here I took a train to Cologne Main Station, Köln Hauptbahnhof. The journey time from Dusseldorf to Cologne is around 20 minutes on a fast train and it covers a distance of around 35 kms. Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich on the river Rhine. One of city’sRead More →