St Albans

After an extended break, welcome back to the blog and we hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and well! Like a lot of people, I have not travelled much in the last couple of years due to COVID – I can count on one hand (possibly two hands, depending on your definition of city…

Morocco – Part VI – Fez

After a very long break, we are back with our final post in the Morocco series, which is on the penultimate city we visited – Fez! Incidentally, it was exactly on this date last year that we began our amazing trip. Fez was a city that involved a lot of wandering about and getting lost…

Bera

“Bera? What/where is that?” If you too had this reaction, worry not, you are not alone and I take back what I said in my post last year on Jhalana that Bera is comparatively more well-known – at least going by my interactions with people pre and post my recent trip. However, while you may…

Fort Kochi

I am quite ashamed that it has taken me almost two months to write a short post on Fort Kochi, given that my trip was only for 1.5 days and more importantly, I only have to update the excellent guest post written by loyal Forum Hopper follower, Aparajita Mrida! My present post is limited to…

Croatia – Part 2 – Zagreb

Hello and a very happy new year! As Juhi and I had apprehended, our Croatia series is unfortunately progressing much more slowly than we would have liked. However, something is better than nothing (is what we are telling ourselves). So, continuing from our introductory post, we’ll now discuss the first city we visited – Zagreb….

Croatia – Part 1

Hello everyone! After a very long time, Fiona and I are back to write about our recent reunion vacation to Croatia in October, which we thoroughly enjoyed! As with our Morocco series, we plan to share our trip with you through a series of conversations covering the places we visited. To begin with, we thought…

Dublin (part 2)

This is part 2 of my post on Dublin (covering the second half of my trip) – first part here: https://forumhopping.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/dublin-part-1/ Day 3 (Dublin Zoo; Christ Church Cathedral; Book of Kells) The iconic Old Library in Trinity College Dublin (home to the Book of Kells). It was supremely picturesque but also a bit crowded, so…