Ever had that meal at the restaurant the guide books recommended. While the meal is more often than not surely more than passable, you still have the feeling that your money deserved better value. Whether it is due to … Continued
How does a traveler experience the surroundings a new land has to offer. Should it be always that it is just a few destinations that a traveler needs to concern themselves with or do they concern themselves with every … Continued
Ever felt that most of our interaction with the Earth’s geographical features is through textbooks. Unless and uptil we get up close and personal with glaciers, volcanoes, canyons and various other forms they seem an enigma. Up until a few … Continued
Reading Jared Diamond’s magnum opus ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’, one of the things which totally fascinated me as a history buff was the fact that Madagascar was supposedly colonized by Indonesians. For the life of me I could not have … Continued
If you are anything like me, a product of the techie era, the word Java conjures up an image of a computer language. Just like most of us I did learn to pronounce “Hello World” in Java. And so did … Continued