Leaving Hyderabad after winter break is always full of blues. For one there was this long flight back home and then there is always work or school to look forward to afterwards. So I especially hate waking up early to catch the flight home, let alone the ridiculously early hours …
I’ve often heard travelers (including Indians) and photographers raving about the souks in the Middle East or the markets in Morocco. But never have I heard of a person raving let alone talking about the bazaars or farmers markets of India. So when I visited the Mehdipatnam Rythu Bazar (farmers …
A lot of you by now have heard about the Alaska MileagePlan devaluation, which does not allow booking of award flights on Cathay, Japan Airlines, and Hainan within 72 hours of departure. The problem was that these airlines often release award space (especially premium cabin) only within this window. This …
We had a quick overnight at the Hyatt House Denver Airport before our early morning departure back to Texas.
After checking out of the Marriott Westminster, we headed to Aspen (first time) for our two night stay. I’ll talk about the drive to Aspen and the town itself in a focal point later on, but first up is my stay in Aspen. The St. Regis Aspen 315 E Dean …
There’s some scary footage of an engine cover (nacelle) falling apart on an United 777 today from San Francisco – Honolulu. The incident occurred 45 minutes before the arrival of the aircraft into Honolulu at which point the airport received a distress signal from the aircraft. Twitter is full of …
Golkonda Fort sits on a 390 foot granite hill, 7 miles outside the centre of Hyderabad, India. The fort dates back to 14th century and was considered impenetrable for almost three centuries before its fall to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1687 at which point it was pillaged and looted.
We stayed at the Marriott Westminster before heading to Aspen on a recent trip to Colorado.
Owing to the Marriott/SPG hotel category changes I wanted to move up some of the reviews I was doing.
I recently came back from my second trip to marvelous Middle Earth, and I just wanted to comment on how much I loved not only the great drives through it, but also the flights over it. I’ll have a full trip report out soon about my trip, but I just …
