White Christmas on its way

Christmas.. The colour White and color Read , get predominant. Yet I havent seen a real white xmas so far . This time I guess we would have a white one for sure. Its been snowing heavily for the past few days.



Its been slippery and of course with life taking a precarious turn why would it not be ...? But I will try to hold on, no matter what.

Belgian Pleasure

Belgium -- Beers and Diamonds and chocolates..

Beer always makes my day better and chocolates out there are class apart.
Diamonds -- they are the troublemakers:)



Duvel a brand thats always promoted.. Do not know why ..!!

Phases or Faces .........

From a Shop at Florence in Italy

Shades and Masks , they add the spice to our life.

Come on .. Think Something Different .. !!

Different people , same pose.

Cherry on the Cake

They are about to celebrate 750 years. Thats indeed a very long long time. The sight of the tallest surviving pre 1400 spire and was a great pleasure. It just didnt end there, being the easter weekend and the cathedral being the center of the diocese , the easter fire was lit early in the morning from here and most of the candles in the cathedral continued to burn even at 2:30 pm when I was there. The history of Pegasus - the flying horse of the mythologies or the para troop of the British Airforce of the World War 1, the oldest working mechanical clock are still in tact out there.


@Salisbury Cathedral - UK

However the icing on the cake is the presence of the Magna Carta, one which influenced the the making of many constitutions and which does hold the ever so famous statement -
" None Will We Sell, To None Deny or Delay, Right or Justice".

Another Chapter from my Travel Days

Cambridge brings in a unique feel. Be it the Classical architecture, the market area or the Starbucks by the road. The Trinitians, the Kings and Queens all within a stone throw away , but each having a legend of their own. Trinity was one college I really knew about , thanks to one of my favorites Srinivas Ramanujam and of course his proffesor Hardy. The Kings and The Queens , they had Subash Chandra Bose and Indira Gandhi there if I am not wrong.



Try the punt over the River Cam , believe me its worth it and lot of fun provided you a get a good punter just like we guys did. The stories of the pet bear, mathematical bridge, the clock tower which never held the clock , a modern building which was designed to potray a tree like figure (.. phew I could never imagine even after I heard that), the story of the missing block and many more , all comes one after the other.

Identity.........

What if every choice we made had already been made for us ? What if there really were no coincidences in life and our destinies were already predetermined.



I wish I could take the time back and forth.