Category: Travel

Time Greenwich Mean Time 1

Time Greenwich Mean Time

Time has always been of great interest to me. Once I started working with developers around the world, time-zones became much more important. GMT is naturally the reference to any time zone. Like IST is +5.5GMT. So Greenwich as soon as my friend told me about it. I was all in. Greenwich has...

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Visiting London and connecting to the world

It wasn’t well planned. I got my visa through fast track process and four days from then I was in London. Only thing that I researched well was mobile data connection. During my research I settled on Huchison 3 data only plan. I paid £20 for SIM and 1GB. But my Nexus One...

Stage 4: From mountains to hot Ambala 0

Stage 4: From mountains to hot Ambala

This wasn’t the most beautiful but this was the most tiring one :) I (we) never expected riding on regular highways would be so tiring, Well our assumptions were wrong. The roads weren’t exactly like highways we had assumed. It was two way and there was heavy truck traffic. We were also riding...

Stage-3: Riding to Rohtang pass 3

Stage-3: Riding to Rohtang pass

This is one of our toughest rides not just physically but psychologically too. But I should also say it was the best and most beautiful track to ride on. This post is going to be long with lots of pictures. Fill your coffee mug. When we reached Manali it was already very cold....

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Stage-2: Unplanned day trip to Manikaran and the decision

We were already a day behind the schedule and were really slow against our expected average speed. Both my friends had limited number of leaves. They had planned everything. But then the story of Manikaran amazed both of my co-riders. I dint have a fixed plan, I had whole month at my disposal....

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Stage-1: From comfort of home to Kullu

I don’t now how we came up with this plan. But I guess its one of those *30year* beer celebration sessions, I pitched a plan to travel by Himsagar Express, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Nothing but just train travel and then return back. For a friend of mine Sandeep that sounded weird. He...