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By Nishi On 22 Aug, 2013 At 04:57 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Getting Around, International, uncategorized | With 0 Comments
Nightmare?

For the nth time in your flying experience, you didn’t get a seat next to a cute chick or a cool dude. Sometimes, it was a middle-aged woman knitting and you feared the pins would pierce your belly, at other times it would be a septuagenarian who liked to doze off on your shoulder. Anyhow, [...]

By Nishi On 19 Aug, 2013 At 04:45 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Fests and Celebrations, India | With 0 Comments
bir

Let’s fly away up to the clouds Away from the maddening crowds… Let us leave the confusion and all disillusion behind Just like bird of a feather, a rainbow together we’ll find. ~ Franco Migliacci in Volare This autumn, it’s adventure season in the hills. Last week, we told you about the marathon in Shimla. [...]

stand up

Richard Branson is always in the news. What to do…he is so full of surprises. The man is a magnet for everything hot and happening. So your flights have always been oh-so-boring. The same old movies being played on the mini screen, your much abused playlist buzzing on your headphones, an occasional announcement jolting you [...]

By Nishi On 8 Aug, 2013 At 06:39 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, India | With 0 Comments
Shimla-marthon-1

Yes, for real. Come 29 September and Shimla will look like a racing track. Men and women from all ages will be seen running on Shimla’s roads. It’s the Shimla Running and Living Half Marathon, now running in its fifth year. This is one race even the laziest of us wouldn’t mind running. It is [...]

By Nishi On 5 Aug, 2013 At 05:35 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Getting Around, India, Need to Know | With 0 Comments
Don't worry, you will be safe now

If there is someone here whose pocket hasn’t ever been pinched or who doesn’t know anyone who has been a victim of theft on public transport, he/she is not Indian in the true sense. It just means you have always been rich enough to travel by private transport (while majority of the population rubs asses [...]

By Nishi On 1 Aug, 2013 At 05:05 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Far-Out, Getting Around, India, International, The Business of Travel | With 0 Comments
Ratnesh's mother ecstatic on seeing him.

Young middle class boy studies hard for IIT. Clears it, becomes a top class engineer. Bags a star job in Amreeka (America) and flies across the seven seas. But he misses his mom. His misses the aloo parathas she used to cook for him. His mom misses her darling beta even more. Story of many [...]

By Nishi On 30 Jul, 2013 At 12:20 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Far-Out, International, Travel Tech | With 0 Comments
cabecera-twitter-new

This is not a hotel; this is one big party. The Sol Wave House, which opened on the beach of Magaluf in Spain in 2012, is a revolutionary concept. It connects all its guests through twitter. And provides them ample opportunities to mingle. As simple as that. And now it has got even better with [...]

By Nishi On 26 Jul, 2013 At 01:07 PM | Categorized As Humour, International, Need to Know, Travel Tech | With 0 Comments
You have been fooled with!

You read a glowing review of a hotel or a restaurant on TripAdvisor. You decide to visit it on your vacation. You manage to arrive at the mentioned address after climbing a mountain, swimming through a river, anticipating a top class property considering the toil you had to undergo.  And wham! What you see there [...]

By Nishi On 22 Jul, 2013 At 04:54 PM | Categorized As Far-Out, International, Mixed Bag | With 0 Comments
A ship with a difference

You have always wanted to go on that fancy cruise across the ocean. Watch the setting sun against the shimmering golden sheet of water. But you never had the money. Or you were the kind who got seasick the moment the ship began rocking on the water. But the sea never failed to fascinate you. [...]

By Nishi On 18 Jul, 2013 At 12:12 PM | Categorized As Buzz in Town, Far-Out, Humour, International, Mixed Bag | With 0 Comments
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Warning: The following content contains sexually explicit images. Viewer discretion is advised. After reading the title, I am sure you don’t want to read any text. It’s the pictures you wanna see. Okay go see the pictures, and then resume reading. Now that you have a fairly good idea of what it is, let me [...]