tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57924523947896373492024-09-14T11:48:26.311+05:30Travel experiences of CuckooCuckoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09593822080382578122noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792452394789637349.post-34504270696625563492008-05-13T16:05:00.002+05:302008-08-07T15:20:51.546+05:30

Hello everyone,I have stopped blogging on this blog since quite some time. I now blog at http://cuckooscosmos.com. But many of you have not yet changed to new URL address and still look forward to read my creations here.My request to you all who have blogrolled or linked me, is that kindly update your blogrolls, feeds on your readers, change the favourites on your browsers and so on.My new

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I have moved to a new place. The new place has brought along some excitements, nervousness, surprises and some sad feelings as well. But then I had to move. Time had come to go to my own place, a place which is mine in true sense. Needless to say it comes with a price one has to pay. Ok, long story cut short.. those who have blogrolled or linked me, kindly change the address (URL) of my new

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If I talk about the no. of my short trips abroad, I think Brussels will come on top. But as it happens in most of the cases, I don’t have many photographs to show you. Since the trips are very short (sometimes not even a week), they are always very tight scheduled and hence, most of the times I don’t carry my camera.Not to mention, this post is mostly textual. Of course, you’ll get to see a few

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Taking a break from Geneva. Lots of pictures to be scanned and am really fed up with the quality I am getting even in 600 dpi which makes each one of them massive (over 100 MB per photo) ! Oh why have I started blogging ?Anyways, most probably I’ll resume it in a week’s time or so. Meanwhile I thought of coming back to Indian scenario. The other Sunday morning I just wanted to go out to a quiet

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Here are some more pictures of Geneva Lake called Lac Léman. You might be wondering why there are two types (scanned & digital) of pictures on my blog. The reason is very simple.When I reached Geneva I had a still camera with me (I am a big fan of still photography, specially B & W photography). The quality of digital pictures are no match to still ones.However, the ease of use and

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On my other blog I was tagged by Sigma. I was asked to describe my three dreams / desires / nightmares or a combination of them .. whatever I want to share. Well, I have already posted about five of my weird dreams which are actually desires and I don’t see dreams quite often. The only two dreams that I remember are coincidentally related to travel, so I thought more apt to post them here as

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Without Lac Léman, Geneva is incomplete and without Jet d’Eau (Water Jet), Lac Léman is incomplete. They are both integral parts of Geneva. The city's most noted landmark, the Jet d'Eau is situated in Lake Geneva. Its 140-metre-high water column is visible from many parts of the city. This jet remains closed for three months during peak winter. Also, in year 2000, Geneva was awarded the Wakker

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When I landed in Geneva I moved into a fourth floor apartment of this building but in a month’s time I moved out. Reason ? I have described below. Please don’t laugh, my reason was very peculiar and a simple one. First something about the apartment. It was a three bed-room apartment with a large living room, a small store room, kitchen, a full-fledged bathroom (without the commode) and a

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Geneva, my first on-site city. It makes me smile, for, it has given me countless nice memories. And it is like my second home after my India. Mumbai-Amsterdam-Geneva. That was the route I was taking. Though I was traveling alone, unlike many first time overseas travelers I was not nervous at all. I was excited. New place, new work and new challenge. I just wanted to run away from Mumbai

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Switzerland, the heaven on earth and to me the land of milk (jahan doodh ki nadiyan behti hain) was the first country that I visited for official work. I was posted in Geneva. Initially the assignment was planned for just three months but as we neared the completion of my stay, fortunately (for me) or unfortunately it got extended twice to make it a trip of around one year.So, I took this as

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So, that was Antwerp.. the beautiful romantic city of diamonds and silvers. But do you know Antwerp is famous for one more reason ? 'The Scheldt river owes its existence to God, and Antwerp owes its existence to the Scheldt river' is a popular saying that shows how important the river Scheldt is for the city of Antwerp. Yes, Antwerp also has Europe's second largest and world’s fourth

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This city is called diamond city as world’s one of the finest diamonds are produced and more than 70% of all diamonds in the world are traded in Antwerp. Not going into statistics but do you know who does the major chunk of business here ? Well, one can find many Indians settled in Antwerp mostly from Gujarati / Marwari business community. Sorry, I don’t know the difference between them except

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Next time when I went to Antwerp, I tried to explore a bit more. When you go on such short trips to a city, it is extremely difficult to take out time for doing so specially if it is a weekday. Fortunately, this time I was to go there on a Friday, decided to stay overnight. By the time we came out of office on Friday, it was above eight in the evening.While going back to the hotel, stopped at

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Antwerp is a beautiful city in Belgium, around 35 - 45 minutes by train from Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Compared to giants like New York, Paris, Sydney or even Mumbai, Antwerp is very small in size but second largest city of Belgium. Have been to this place 3 times, all for very short visits... sometimes a day trip from Brussels. It is pretty convenient, since there are plenty of trains

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