Memory Vials

I used the following means while traveling solo in Central Europe. Hostel World dot com . Find a sweet spot by checking price, reviews, and location.  Blabla Car . Cheapest travel option of all. Plus if you get lucky you get to travel with locals who will share their stories and listen to yours.  Flixbus, Studentagency, Polskibus, Postbus . They are crazy cheap bus services and have routes all over.  GoEuro dot Com. This is a must-have app. It will give you all options with prices - Air, Rail, Road. I would rate it one of the 5 top apps in the world. I mean it.  I stayed at my friends’ in major cities. So be nice to people and make friends. You never know who will shift to which city in the future. ;)  Ryanair - travel when they offer dirt cheap air tickets.  Durums and Kababs at Turkish shops. I did not spend too much and still had full meals. I would go to Lidl, Carrefour, and Biedronka whenever possible to grab a few sandwiches and Snickers to...

We are a bunch of snow-deprived people. In 2007 I started working as a software developer in my hometown Pune, India. Not everyone will admit it but being freshly out of college and starting a job in software, means you are halfway through your dream of going abroad and seeing amazing places. Well, at least Facebook (Orkut back in those days) made me believe that. So, one year down the line when I missed a few chances to go abroad, it was the biggest turndown for me. The positive thing though was I made some great friends in my company. One of my friends and then colleague, Atul came up with the idea of going to see the Himalayas. He found out one group - YHAI [1] , which is a non-profit entity. They organize highly subsidized adventure tours [2] for the young all over India basically at dirt cheap rates. We unanimously voted for it and thus born another dream. The Himalayas.. snow-covered mountains so gigantic that it dwarfs every other hill I had seen in my life. The news spr...

I accidentally ate beef. I once was traveling around south Karnataka, India with my friend Omkar, Martin and Kelly - exchange students who were from England. Martin had his camera ready to click almost all the time and seemed particularly amazed whenever he saw cows on the road. When we were crossing Bandipur national park we happened to spot some deer grazing near the highway and I was excited because it must be the first time I had seen deer in the wild. I looked at Martin who was rather indifferent and didn’t bother to even touch the camera. I asked him that back in the city he was taking so many pictures of the animals and was there anything wrong now. What he said particularly struck me. He said that he sees deer in his backyards in England all the time, it was ‘the cows in the city streets’ that interested him more. (This photo is Martin’s actual Facebook album) We arrived in Ooty quite late in the evening and it was almost past the dinner time. So there were not so many rest...

भाग १ लिहून काही वर्षे झाली. त्यानंतर पाहिलेल्या या मालिका. (प्रथम संस्करण १२-११-२०१७) वेस्टवर्ल्ड २०१६ मध्ये एचबीओ वर ही मालिका सुरु झाली. प्रत्येक सीझन मध्ये १० भाग असलेल्या या मालिकेचे आतापर्यंत २ सीझन झाले आहेत. तर काय आहे वेस्टवर्ल्ड? वेस्ट वर्ल्ड हे भविष्यातले एक थीम पार्क आहे. हजारो एकर मध्ये इथे एकोणिसाव्या शतकाच्या उत्तरार्धातली दक्षिण-पश्चिम अमेरिका उभी केलीये. या थीम पार्क मधली पात्रे खरी खुरी माणसे नसून अतिप्रगत रोबॉट्स आहेत. या यंत्रमानवांना असे काही बनवण्यात आलय की ते हुबेहूब माणसांसारखी झालीयेत. त्यांना वेदना होतात, आनंद होतो, झोप येते, ते स्वप्न पाहतात, त्यांना तहान भूक लागते, वार केला तर ते मरतात देखील. त्यात कुणी सैनिक आहेत, कुणी काऊबॉय, कुणी खुनी दरोडेखोर तर कुणी नगर रक्षक. कुणी वेश्या आहेत तर कुणी चांगल्या घरच्या सुसंस्कृत मुली. माणसे तर सोडाच साप, घोडे, कुत्रे हे प्राणी देखील यंत्रच. या सर्वांच्या अस्तित्वाचे एकच कारण - त्या पार्क मध्ये येणाऱ्या पर्यटकांचे मनोरंजन करणे. या यंत्रमानवांना स्वतः विचार करण्याची निर्णय घेण्याची मुभा आहे. पर्यटकांना जिवंत अनुभव ...

मराठीसाठी  इथे क्लिक करा . This post is a reference to my review of Google Maps. I couldn't post it all there because of the size limit. I hope that this review helps people who want to take their loved ones to Dr. Kumbhar's clinic. Original post date - January 2018.  Original Post I took my grandmother ( 85 years old , Pune) to Dr. Pandurang Kumbhar's clinic for her paralysis treatment. My grandmother suffered a paralysis stroke on 20th Nov 2016. She just felt numbness in her right arm around dawn and waited for us to wake up. She told us that she is not able to move her right arm at all. Since she was able to speak normally, we thought it could be a temporary numbness. When even after 4 hours she was unable to move, we rushed to the hospital. Doctors started treatment and told us that it was a paralysis stroke and 90% of her right arm and 60-70% of her right leg was paralyzed. The doctor mentioned that the earlier patients get treatment in such a case, the b...