Tuesday, April 7, 2009Istanbul, Turkey A Presidential Visit Disrupts our Sightseeing Plans:After another huge breakfast on the sea-facing terrace of Deniz Konark Hotel in which we slept very well last night, we set out to discover the Ayasofya—once a Byzantine church, then a mosque and now a museum. Only, we discovered, to our utter disappointment,…
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Chained to my PC!
Sunday, March 1, 2009London I awoke again at 5 am. I am now convinced it has something to do with the temperature in my bedroom–perhaps it is too warm! While in Oslo, I slept effortlessly until almost 7 am each day. Yet, here I was, unable to get back to sleep and, left with little…
Goodbye Oslo, Hello London!
Saturday, February 28, 2009Oslo-London Day Three–Tying up Loose Ends:The Oslo Opera House:I awoke to another hearty Norwegian breakfast and having packed my backpack for my 6. 20 pm Ryanair departure from Torp airport, I decided to spend my last day seeing a few things that I did not want to leave Oslo without covering. Breakfasting…
Bygdoy–Oslo’s Lovely Peninsular
Friday, February 27, 2009Oslo, Norway Exploring Bygdo–The Viking Ships Museum: I decided to devote Day Two to Bygdoy (Like Big Boy, except this is Big Doy!), a peninsular that juts into the fjord. Once an island, it was reclaimed by Karl Johans and now had a motorway that connects the island to the mainland. Claimed…
Exploring Downtown Oslo
Thursday, February 26, 2009Oslo, Norway Day One in Oslo–Breakfast at the Youth Hostel:Because I had managed to get some reading done from my Norway DK Eye Eyewitness Guide en route to Stanstead airport, I decided that I would spend my first day in the City Center getting oriented. It seemed that the city was rather…
Hullo Norway!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009London-Oslo Never having been to Scandinavia, I was excited about my visit to Norway. And not having read too much about it until I was on the coach driving to Stanstead airport, I really did not know what to expect. I mean, there are a few aspects about it we all know:…
British Library, Accommodation Hunting and Another Interview
Wednesday, February 25, 2009London Through the miracle of modern technology and flawless logistics, my Frank Anthony book was awaiting my arrival at the British Library when I reached there this morning at 10. 30. In the lovely Asia and Africa Reading Room, while being gazed upon by the oil-painted portraits of India’ s erstwhile rajas…
Sight-Seeing in Sussex: Chichester, Arundel and Petworth
Sunday, February 22, 2009Chichester Up again at 5. 50 am, I found the time to check and respond to email, make an Easybus booking to get to Stanstead airport and back for my trip this week to Oslo, Norway, and began drafting a new research grant application–all this while the rest of the world had…
Tea with Blair, Post-Christmas Sales and Return to the National Gallery
Tuesday, January 13, 2009London Being still jetlagged, I awoke at 3. 15 am, tossed and turned until 4. 15 am then gave up attempting to fall back to sleep. Since I am clearly still on Bombay Time it made sense to spend an hour reading The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel that…