On the third morning on April 16, the eyes opened early. We enjoyed the sunrise while sitting under the balcony of the bougainvillea on the same lawn and sipping tea. Even today we had called Putu at around ten oclock so that we could prepare breakfast and dinner for the day and take it with us. Mu
Bamboo Kandel We had just walked some distance in Kuta town that we saw a procession of women walking on the road. At our request, Putu parked the car on one side of the road and we got down to watch the procession. It was a grand procession in which mainly women were participating. These women com
Roadside Lunch After seeing Taman Ayun Temple we left for Tanahlot Temple with Putu. It is about an hour away from Mengvi. It was afternoon. So we asked Putu to stop the car at some place where we could have a meeting and have lunch. We had prepared the food in our service apartment in the morning
To enter the temple, each person has to buy a ticket worth twenty thousand Indonesian rupees. We bought five tickets, so one lakh rupees were spent. If this currency was taken from us in Indian Rupees, then we would have had to pay five hundred rupees, which is not so much, but after hearing one lak
This morning we had to leave for the Colosseum. We had tickets to the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palantine Hill that we got yesterday from the Merulana Plazo. These three places are adjacent to each other. We were given 12 oclock time to enter the Colosseum. We decided to leave the apartment
Eyes opened at 2:30 in the morning. It would be six oclock in India at this time. I retired from defecation and went to sleep again. There was no chance of falling asleep again. Still lying down. All the other members also got up according to Indian time. Madhu and Bhanu, after organizing the mornin
Cellphone Charger Hock Waking up in the morning, when I tried to plug in the electric plug to charge my cellphone, the pin of the charger raised my hand. It was made according to Indian standard and could not enter the electric socket of Italy. For this we need a connector which accepts equipment o
At Leonardo da Vinci Airport At 7.00 pm we landed at Leonardo da Vinci Airport, 35 km from Rome. The flight was of 2.15 but due to poor relations between India and Pakistan, instead of going from Delhi over Pakistan, the flight reached Italy crossing the Mediterranean Sea via Bombay over the Arabia
Rome has been called the navel of the world since time immemorial in India. It is certain that Rome is not in the middle of the earth, then why is Rome called the navel of the world! Certainly Rome gave Europe science, religion and philosophy. Gave laws and rules, gave food and dress style. There wa
For us, these costly foreign trips are a means to the painstaking process of assimilating the history and culture of that country and then putting it on the pages as it is. Our family trip to Rome in the summer of 2019 was part of one such process. In this journey of eleven days from May 17 to May
Gambiri Stesyan It was like any busy railway station in India, but seeing this station was no less than seeing world history. This railway station was built during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Presently business class and executive class trains halt at this station. One has to go to Pa
Today on April 21, we were to leave for Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia from Yogyakarta. We had made a reservation on a luxury train. This train was scheduled to leave Yogyakarta at 8.57 am and reach Jakarta at 4.52 pm. The railway station was only 8-9 kms away from our service apartment. Still we
Rawat Jalan We requested him that we have to buy wheat flour, cooking oil, milk and vegetables so take him to a departmental store. We were left with very little ghee and flour now. We had to prepare and take food for the next three days along with this evening, for which these ingredients were not
You come close, just smile The girl with coconut water cut the coconut and put two straws in it and gave it to us. On the one hand, the coconuts there are two to three times bigger than the coconuts found in India, but this coconut was much bigger than the coconuts there. We filled that water in ou
The list of inventions and discoveries made by man begins with fire and the wheel. Horseback is nowhere to be found in this list, while horseback has played as important a role in creating the world as fire and the wheel. The Roman Empire was also built not only on fire and wheel, but also on horseb
Effort to throw garbage Got up at 4.30 in the morning and made preparations to leave. Madhu and Bhanu had made the puris in the night itself. Prepared vegetables in the morning. After all the preparations were done, Vijay and I went to throw the garbage at 6.47 am. The owners of all three service a
Eyes opened at 4 in the morning. It rained almost the whole night, so by morning it was quite cold. Vijays eyes also opened with me. He made tea and I sat down to write the details of yesterdays trip. Keep writing till 8 oclock. Meanwhile drank two more cups of tea. Today we had only one place to go
Hello Deepa! Eyes opened at five oclock in the morning. Madhu made tea. Because of this tea, it does not seem that we are thousands of kilometers away from our home. After retiring from daily work, he sat down to write a diary. Keep writing till eight oclock. As soon as I finished writing, Deepa ca
Eyes opened at 5.27 in the morning. After retiring from the toilet, sat down to write the details of yesterdays journey. Today we have to leave for Venice at 11 am. The train is at 12 noon. Vijay messaged the owner of the service apartment which Vijay had booked in Venice from here that we will reac
When I opened my eyes, I saw it is five oclock. It was amazing that even in the biological clock of the body, now the alarm of 5 oclock in Italy was fixed instead of 5 oclock in India. We had our eighth day in Italy today. As soon as I woke up, put it on cellphone charging and transferred the pictur
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