Japan was always the plan, it was only a matter of when. š We planned well in advance, but even then, thanks to it being Sakura season, a lot of hotels were sold out. The visa took less than a week to get processed. Bangalore has a direct flight to Tokyo. So all you have […]
First published in Bangalore Mirror Over the years, the Kerala toddy shop menu has rapidly grown in stature from being mere ātouchingā partners during drinks to a whole cuisine in itself. Hence you can imagine our delight on seeing an outlet that promises āauthentic Kerala shaap cuisineā, especially when it unabashedly calls itself Shaap! Before […]
We’d been eyeing The Fort Kochi connection for a while now, especially since the ads started appearing in the Malayalam daily, and the only reason we’d been delaying the inevitable trip was that we thought it would be a revamped version of its earlier avatar – Oyster Bay. But on the day we were planning […]
Air Asia informed us earlier that the flight to KL had been delayed, and thanks to that, D and I had a small mix up on the time front. Despite this, this was probably the most peaceful start to a vacation that we’ve had. We stood in the queue silently but scornfully commenting on the […]
Actually it was quite a Plan A, since we’ve been hearing good things about this place for a couple of weeks now. (She insists I heard it from her first) And when pork and beef are involved, we usually have less of planning and more of execution. Plan B is on the ground floor of […]