Travel Extras Archives • Page 27 of 38 • Maverickbird

Paris through my eyes, a photo essay

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to […]

December 23, 2021

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020

The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of […]

April 10, 2020

My earliest Holi memories go back to my growing up days at the paramilitary camp where we stayed during my […]

March 31, 2020

“A woman dances away in bliss, a sublime smile playing on her lips: a group of men painted pink, green, […]

March 30, 2020

Traveling with children is beautifully enriching. There is no greater pleasure than to see your child’s eyes light up from […]

March 8, 2020

In 2013 or 2014, I spent some weeks in Sri Lanka. It was during monsoon and tourism was at its […]

February 14, 2020

Drip-drip, the rain fell insistently outside my window. It was not a hard, drumming rain that bears down like dead […]

February 11, 2020

Colombo as a capital city of Sri Lanka does not offer a bundle of attractions. It is crowded, congested and […]

January 27, 2020

The Colpetty or Kollupitiya Market is heralded by the senior Colombites as a tradition that prevailed against the odds of […]

January 26, 2020