From Bergen to Flåm and back
Sep 23, 2016
The wife and I love train journeys. While planning for our trip to Bergen in Norway, the wife had read about how beautiful the train ride from
Welcome to my new blog!
Sep 10, 2016
More content coming in a couple of weeks.
Global warming etc.
Feb 2, 2016
Exposure or ‘De Hurkende Man’ (The Crouching Man) is a 25 meter high metallic sculpture in Lelystad by British sculptor Antony Gormley. We paid a
Mariza in Amsterdam
Aug 17, 2015
Mariza performed at the Concertgebouw last week and we happened to be in attendance. That she is a talented Fado singer is something I knew from her
Photoblog: Photo #75 - De Lezende Kip
Aug 16, 2015
While walking through a quiet neighbourhood in Amsterdam today, I came across this gable stone depicting a rooster reading a book. The inscription
In which Amsterdam poses me a musical riddle
Jun 28, 2015
For a long time I’ve been fascinated by the colourful gable stones that adorn the houses of Amsterdam. They are usually found just above the door of
Photoblog: Photo #71 - The antique book/art shop
May 3, 2015
On my way from work I often walk past a shop on Haarlemmerstraat that sells old books and works of art. I’ve never been inside the shop, but from
On watercolours
Mar 8, 2015
The compulsory painting classes in our school were a laughable formality. They didn’t follow a curriculum and no attempt was made to teach even the
A bridge in Cologne
Dec 26, 2014
I don’t know what led my uncle in the US to pick a jigsaw puzzle with the Cologne Cathedral on it. I don’t know of any family ties to Cologne. Nor
On Vivian Maier
Dec 23, 2014
Vivian Maier was an ordinary person with an extraordinary obsession with photography. She worked as a nanny practically all her life and died poor
Photoblog: Photo #48 - Scale
Sep 4, 2014
If you look closely at the ship in the background, you’ll realise that there are a lot of people standing on the top deck. I think the minute size
Photoblog: Photo #47 - The view from IJdok
Aug 31, 2014
When we moved to our apartment in Amsterdam three years ago, a building was coming up right in front. Rather it seemed like a building. It fact, it
Even and odd
Mar 30, 2014
Urban planning in India is patchy. Nowhere is this more evident than the way houses are numbered. Whenever we’d visit friends or relatives living in
Seeing faces
Apr 9, 2013
The improvement in quality of phone cameras and the phones’ ability to run powerful image processing apps has started to open some interesting
You and I and gro-cer-y
Mar 8, 2013
The wife and I met online several years ago. We are from the same city but at that time both of us were working in different parts of India. We
Marken’s wintery landscape
Feb 17, 2013
We had last visited Marken over a year ago in summer. Despite having endured a particularly cold and long winter this year, I didn’t expect Marken
Not all who wander are lost
Dec 31, 2012
You learn all sorts of things about yourself once you leave the house or the city where you grew up. My biggest realisation has been that I love
The canal in IKEA’s Amsterdam photo
Dec 18, 2012
When we moved to our apartment in Amsterdam, all its walls were bare except for the living room wall where this cheesy, mass-produced IKEA print
Unfinished books
Sep 2, 2012
I just finished reading Author Author, a fictionalised biographical sketch of Henry James by David Lodge. While I immensely enjoyed it, this post is
Cricket: a year on
Apr 2, 2012
I saw SRT’s tweet this morning but didn’t catch the reference till the wife mentioned it this evening:
Time flies but memories last forever. What a
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