Paris and Isle of Wight trip

I have been visiting places last month and as I said in my last post, I’m here with my account of the Paris trip. What I think is Europe is truly a beautiful place and it has a lot to offer. By visiting 2 or 3 places I can’t boast of seeing the entire Europe, but still Paris is a place of significance. It is rightly said

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris”.

Paris is an artistic, romantic city, is known to all and how can I deny the fact….after visiting the city. Actually, you will always feel shortage of time in Paris if you are a visitor and don’t want to miss anything. There are lots and lots and lots of places and streets and monuments and what not ….worth watching…

 

 

I was fortunate to get a chance to visit the city and and just like every other visitor, was amazed by the charm and air. What Paris has to do with Love, you can find in the qoutation by an English painter John Berger:

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.“

 

Paris has lot of historical, cultural and monumental landmarks of its own. Overall I liked the visit.

 

Last week I visited a beautiful Island in UK – the Isle of Wight. Its a real beautiful island, you can feel the freshness from the picture below.

 

It was a short day trip to the island and we could visit only a part of the entire beauty that the island has to offer. But to say the least, this is a place to cool your nerves and relax after months and years of busy life that we go through. The very moment you reach Island you are refreshed and energised.

Again, this island has a history of its own like the needls park and the Alum bay.

 

In essence, this part of the world has been good to me and I am having good time enjoying natue and history, if not the culture.. For I have to say, I’m missing my home land and its food

Having said these and being an Indian…to quote Will Durrant – an American writer:

“India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”

Hope to come back with much more.

Thanks for reading.

My First Month at UK

Its been more than 20 days since I arrived at UK and its been a happening month for me.

The first week was more of introduction at office, getting used to the environment, conditions and yes also preparing for the much awaited Paris trip that was planned for me even before I reached here .

I had get my schengen Visa done, so I visited the French embassy in in London in the first week itself as I got an appointment for Friday 11.30 AM. The day was more of embassy stuff and I finally got through the entire process and was free at 4PM.

As it was my first visit to london, I had planned to meet my childhood friend Abhishek and spend some time with him sightseeing but unfortunately could’nt do so as he was busy and I did’nt inform him earlier. Not a good news for me.

Still, I managed to roam around the South Kensington Underground station to feel the air of London. I returned to London Victoria station at 5:30 and caught a train to Worthing (my base at UK) only to reach worthing by 7:30 pm.

That was my first trip to London. Next opportunity came pretty soon, when 3 of us (office colleagues) planned to visit London on Monday as it was a Bank Holiday. That was a good trip for me as I got to see lot of London.

Link to some of the pics from london is here

Next friday we had to leave for Paris. It was a great experience. Hopefully I will be able to detail the entire experience in my next post.

Till then keep reading.

I’ll leave you with some lines from a poem of a Hindi poet

Koi diwana kehta hai, koi pagal samajhta hai
Koi diwana kehta hai, koi pagal samajhta hai
Maga dharti ki bechaini ko bas badal samajhta hai
Main tujhse dur kaisa hun tu mujhse dur kaisi hai
Ye tera dil samajhta hai….ya mera dil samajhta hai…….

Mohabbat ek ehsaason ki paawan si kahaani hai
Mohabbat ek ehsaason ki paawan si kahaani hai
Kabhi kabira diwaana tha kabhi Meera diwaani hai
Yahan sablog kehte hain meri aankhon me aansoo hai
Jo tu samjhe to moti hai…jo na samjhe to paani hai….

Samandar pir ka andar hai lekin ro nahi sakta
Samandar pir ka andar hai lekin ro nahi sakta
ye aansoo pyar ka moti hai isko kho nahi sakta
Meri chaht ko apna tu bana lena magar sun le
Jo mera ho nahi paaya wo tera ho nahi sakta

Bhramar koi kumudni par machal baitha to hungama
hamaare dil me koi khwaab pal baitha to hungaama
abhi tak doob kar sunte the sab kissa mohabbat ka
Main kisse ko haqiqat me badal baitha to hungama.