In India retail sector is growing like mushrooms especially in metro suburbs. Everybody is in this rat race; recently heavy weight Wal-Mart joined to open their stores in India and even reliance is now trying to negotiate with france based global retail major Carrefour (which is in air ). Some of the new retail stores [...]
Wish you all happy & prosperous New Year.Its time to write almost last entry for this year. For quite a while was thinking to write about 2005 year diary. Hmm…………not able to write with this dull and grey sky and no need to mention the cold at Paris but wait………… seems some ray of light [...]
When I was on my vacation last week in Spain and Portugal, was thinking about to write down all that we had experienced there – the places we visted and food we tasted and others. But back to work it is such a Dilbert place that I can not explain with my logic. Also I [...]
Second day at Lisbon, as we had covered most of the top attractions on day one we started our day in ease, but I am sure lot of people might not agree with us on easy going part. We headed towards Colombo Shopping Mall which is one of the largest shopping mall in Europe and [...]
Last day at Seville… After checking out from the hotel we took a bus and got down next to the Casino of Exposition. But today it is a public holiday at Seville which we did not knew, so the roads were quite empty at 9 in the morning. After getting down from the bus we [...]
Back from Cordoba around 4PM in the afternoon to Seville. We went to buy ticket for next phase of journey that was between Seville and Lisbon. Oh! That was too hot and sweating experience to summarize in short. Back to hotel being boiled with afternoon heat we got freshen up. We started our evening stroll [...]
When we started planning for Andalusia we did not thought of Cordoba first. But later friends who had been there suggested visiting Cordoba. We walked from our hotel on the busy morning streets of Seville to reach the train station. We bought ticket for AVE (fast train) to Cordoba. The fair is not at all [...]
I should have started jotting down all my memories from this beautiful city immediatley after my return to Paris. But back to work and daily routine…. lots of finer moments are fading off. We took a morning bus from Granada to Seville; we reached Seville around 11AM. The bus ride was around 2 hours and [...]
We did not book our tickets for Alhambra before coming to Granada. There can be 8,000 visitors inside Alhambra in a given day. Out of those 8,000 around 6,500 are sold over internet & phone. So for us, it meant getting up early and queuing up in the morning. As it was Monday and not [...]
The temperature in Spain was quite hot compared to Paris. It was around 37° C when we reached Granada in the afternoon. The bus station for intercity is not at the city center but there is a good connection of public transport for the same. Our hotel was at the center – Plaza Royal. Around [...]