San Francisco Diary: Favorite Moments

December 11, 2011 by Lavanya

We went for a short trip to San Francisco over Thanksgiving weekend and had a wonderful time: walking through the city, eating our way through the different neighborhoods, smelling, and drinking in all the loveliness that this city has to offer. I have so much to say about what we did and ate and saw, but I will start with my favorite moments, encapsulating them in this post while the memories are still fresh. My favorite moments, some long, some […]

Categories: Picture Memories, Scent, Travel • Tags: Green Apple Bookstore, mandy aftel, San Francisco, Travel

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