Since ancient times, across borders of religions and continents the festivities seem to have spiritual and mystical alignments to the winter months. The ‘Time-wheel’ seems to carry the festive season that turns towards December and the scintillating sounds and lights of Christmas, Churches, Christmas Trees and Gifts celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ is a […]

We were embraced by greenery all around us as we stepped out of the Buscot Park Hall in England. Past the two bronze Greek statues of Centaurs on both sides of the grand stone staircase we descended to the courtyard below, after finishing the tour of the grand Buscot Hall. We decided to walk towards […]

On a rainy Spring day from the main motorway we turned into stunning environs- long-long tree lined path, over a lake bridge, past a large green paddock to reach the car park. We were in Faringdon, England and the trail ahead was swathed with foliage and had an interesting name on the guide map – […]

We reached the beautiful home of the celebrated Anglo- Irish playwright & socialist George Bernard Shaw and his wife Charlotte at Shaw’s Corner in England, enveloped in greenery. From writing the popular play Pygmalion in 1913 that inspired famous movies- Pygmalion 1938, My Fair Lady 1964 and Pretty Woman 1990 to the Literary Nobel Prize […]

We reached the house of the celebrated Anglo- Irish playwright & socialist George Bernard Shaw which continues to attract visitors and film makers till today. We were at Shaw’s Corner in England- the home to Shaw and his wife Charlotte. From the popular play Pygmalion in 1913 that inspired famous movies- Pygmalion 1938, My Fair […]

Driving on a tree lined narrow English country road with backdrop of vast green openness we reached the house of the celebrated Anglo- Irish playwright & socialist George Bernard Shaw who continues to attract readers, visitors and film makers till today. We were at Shaw’s Corner in England- the home to Shaw and his wife […]

Driving through the scenic, centuries old village of West Wycombe we approached the serene elegant West Wycombe House surrounded by acres of foliage enveloping a sparkling lake and theatrical garden monuments. It was an exciting thought to be walking on grounds walked by the Bishops of Winchester whose lineage dates back to the 1st century […]

On a cold cloudy winter morning we hurried on the Keats Grove road to finally came across a board that announced ‘It was a poet’s house who keeps the keys of pleasure’s temple’ outside the home of the romantic poet John Keats. We were in the beautiful Hampstead Heath in England at the Keats House […]

Amongst the many lures of Northern England are several Northumberland Castles wherein each stone, each room, even each tree has a story of its own to narrate! Whilst on a summer-break; we got an opportunity to visit the magnificent Alnwick Castle with its contemporary gardens. Past a narrow bridge on a moat we got the […]

On September the fourth, at an ancient pagan-temple site on Montmartre-hill rose the Church of Sacre-Coeur in remembrance of thousands of   French soldiers butchered in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a national penance for France’s defeat! We were at Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre in Paris to visit the ‘Sacred Heart of Jesus”- the highest point in […]