musingswhileunlearning

Credits: incredibleindia.org After forty four years of my life in my wonderful country,  India and having been blessed with an opportunity to travel across its length and breadth throughout my life (and yet, so much remains unseen), I recently got an opportunity to visit another country. As they say, when it rains, it pours! So, it ended up being not one or two or three countries but a total of ten!! Something of a jack of all trades and master of none situation, you might say! We had been making plans for a while and they always got shelved mostly for monetary and leave availability reasons. Yet, when the time is right, everything falls into place. My Mom-in-law came to a fairly hefty sum of money from her property which she generously distributed amongst her two sons. At around the same time, a certain tour manager came to my mother’s notice, who created great packages at reasonable costs and was advertising for a Europe trip. Knowing that it would interest me, she told me...