75th Anniversary of D-Day
This June 6th marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Two of the most difficult operations carried out on June 6th 1944 were the takeover of Pointe du Hoc and the landing of the first troops at Omaha Beach.…
Time Keeper
Game of Thrones (GoT) Filming Locations
It was early summer, and we were still getting boiled by the scorching sun above and the reflections from glistening medieval stone below. There were hordes of tourist groups all around us – most of them would drop in droves…
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
During the Battle of Normandy (Normandie), a staggering 425,000 troops were killed, wounded or went missing. Roughly half of these were Allied troops and the other half German. The Allies also captured an additional 200,000 prisoners of war, whose fate…
Bokod Houseboats
[47.498978, 18.283446] The Bokod lake is an outlet for the nearby thermal power plant, and never freezes, even when the mighty Danube that runs only a few miles from this location, freezes over during the harsh Hungarian winter.
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
As we gear up for the benevolent Santa to mine his database of kids’ privacies to deliver ads, umm, gifts to the kids, it is hard to imagine that there are others data miners who are vying for the same…
A Not So Pedestrian Bridge (World War 1)
On the morning of June 25th 1914, Archduke Prince Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent of the mega Austro-Hungarian empire, arrived in Sarajevo to do what heir-apparents of mega-empires do – walk the bazaars, shop, while inaugurating a few monuments. Though there…
Tsukiji to Toyosu
In 1935, the world’s largest wholesale fish market opened in a neighborhood called Tsukiji, occupying prime Tokyo real estate right in the center of the city. 83 years later, on October 6th 2018, it finally symbolically shuttered its doors and…
An Itinerary for Morocco
Over 10 days in the Summer of 2018, we took a much-awaited fabulous trip through Morocco. The final itinerary placed us in 5 main cities – Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Fes, Marrakech and Ouarzazate – with a few more sights and brief…
Amidst the rooftops of Fes (Fez)
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”― Bob Dylan As we approached our first sunset in the unique town of Fez, we scrambled to find a place to get a bird’s eye view of…
The 90,000 alleys of Morocco
Are there really 90,000 alleys in Morocco? Who really knows, but it feels like there are a whole lot more. The Fes (Fez) medina, or old town, is the largest car-free zones in the world, and is itself said to have…