Venice Diary: Favorite Moments

December 7, 2009 by Lavanya

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Categories: Travel, writing • Tags: favorite moments, Italy, Venice Diary

Venice Diary: Of masks, markets and melt in your mouth food

December 6, 2009 by Lavanya

It is inevitable that one speaks of masks when one talks of Venice. Even though masks seem to be hardly a part of  the current ‘Venice experience’. Yet, they hang at every corner shop or stall, a hangover from a past where they had an undeniable role. The masks in the corner are from a shop near the San Marco square called Max Art Shop. Here, masks are handcrafted by local artisans from either ceramic or papier mache.  So ofcourse I had to […]

Categories: Food/Drink, Picture Memories, Travel • Tags: Food, Italy, masks, restaurant, Venice Diary

Venice Diary: In which I walked and was whimsical

December 5, 2009 by Lavanya

What can I say about Venice that hasn’t been said before? It is beautiful and romantic and makes you think wonderful things. It weaves gossamer threads around you that bind you to it, forever. It moves through you, making you aware of your most intimate thoughts. It breathes with the slow lapping of its bobbing boats. Its watery breath holds its night and day together, creating an easy interlocking of its sights, sounds and the feelings they evoke. It lives […]

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Bite sized Italy

December 4, 2009 by Lavanya

I’m back from a short but wonderful trip to Venice, Florence and Rome. I have a lot of ‘Italy’ swishing and swirling in my head. My posts in the course of the next couple of weeks are probably going to be full of all the beauty, art, food  and people that I encountered in Italy. You are welcome to stroll by and peek..:) Picture : a lane in Venice near the Cannaregio neighborhood

Categories: Picture Memories, Travel • Tags: Italy, Travel, Venice

Imperfect Memories

October 3, 2009 by Lavanya

We were walking near Charminar, in Hyderabad (India). I remember bright cloth bags hanging at the entrance of the stall-like shops. And gullys containing the sounds of bangles and bangle sellers. People with baskets on the footpath, selling coins, statues and other things. I wanted to buy some coins. My father-in-law wanted to buy me bangles. In the end, we bought neither. Looking up at the sky and moving down, you see this. Moving down further, away from the sky, […]

Categories: Picture Memories, Travel, writing • Tags: charminar, hyderabad, India, sights, sounds, Travel

The texture of a mountain. And some fruit

September 1, 2009 by Lavanya

The picture on the blog, below the words ‘And a small sensory window’, lives in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and is actually called ‘Angel’s Window’. The picture nudging the words on this post, is what lies beyond the ‘Angel’s Window’. After a short walk, the teasing glimpse through the ‘window’, expands into an unreal view. And by unreal, I don’t just mean beautiful. The view was literally unreal. Like a scene frozen and stolen from an animation […]

Categories: Food/Drink, Travel • Tags: Food, grand canyon, sensory, Travel