Our first major road trip after months of staying locked in our Hyderabad apartment was to Tranquebar. Situated 100Kms away from Thanjavur on the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu, it was a three hour drive my from parents house.
Continue reading K&K’s Visit to The Danish town of Tranquebar/Tharangambadi & The Ziegenbalg HouseCategory Archives: Museums
K&K’s Visit to the Thanjavur Maratha Palace
I have always been drawn to forts, castles and palaces because they have the power to transport us to various times and eras in History. Whichever the city or country we travel to, I always look for historical places that we can visit. As we are spending the past couple of months at my parent’s house in Thanjavur, which is rich in culture and history, we decided to visit the Thanjavur Maratha Palace which is the second major attraction, the Thanjavur Brihadishwara Temple being the first!
Continue reading K&K’s Visit to the Thanjavur Maratha PalaceK&K’s Visit to Sigtuna, Sweden’s First City
I remember this day very vividly from last spring. It felt like I had literally spent my day in a hundred post cards – the kind of feeling you get when you are in a place too pretty to be true. The only time I remember feeling that way was back in 2012 on my visit to Stratford upon Avon, the 16th-century birthplace of William Shakespeare.
My parents in law were visiting us. We were spending our weekends showing them around Stockholm. That Saturday Sigtuna it was! Continue reading K&K’s Visit to Sigtuna, Sweden’s First City