Georgia is a small country located on the crossroads of Europe and Asia, with an ancient history and culture largely influenced by Christianity and blessed with spectacular natural beauty. Beautiful churches and monasteries set in fantastic mountain backdrops, the cultural heritage, the very interesting rock-cut monasteries, cave towns, fortresses, soaring mountains, chateaus and vineyards and breathtakingly...
Norway “the Land of Midnight Sun”, is a country which has 20 hours of Sunlight during the summer and 20 plus hours of darkness during winter. But if you want to explore Norway, either budget for a good number of days or plan for multiple visits. Norway is a 12 month destination for travellers and offers...
I wanna touch the northern lights We could leave the world behind I wanna know what it’s like To walk away from this life – Northern Lights Jaymes Young My first tryst with Aurora Borealis was through the lovely pictures clicked by my friend and his never ending narratives about the phenomena. So what is Aurora...
Aurora Borealis is mostly on everyone’s bucket list and was certainly on mine as well. Last winter a group of friends headed to Tromso, Norway to witness the celestial lights in action! Being from south of India where temperatures hover on the higher side, my family was a little concerned about the extreme temperatures...
Christmas Book Flood If Christmas is around the corner, Icelandic publishing houses will release hundreds of new titles onto the Icelandic book market. This commences a unique tradition known as the jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas Book Flood. During this bustling and much-anticipated yearly event, bookstores across Iceland resemble miniature concert venues. Icelandic authors of all genres...
Christmas over these many years has always been about joy and celebration with friends, family, cakes, wine and presents… This time we were wondering about celebrating it with Santa at his home in Rovaniemi… We had always wanted to visit Rovaniemi and the Santa Claus Village to participate in a traditional Lapland Christmas. We all know...
“Set-jetting” is about visiting the sets or locations where GoT was filmed.. It’s a modern iteration of the literary pilgrimage – remember how Stratford-upon-Avon for long thrived on the memory of its most famous dead resident, Shakespeare? Or the Lake District with its many literary greats like Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter?Iceland’s economy, from being on...
Beer and Iceland! The two words go together... almost!Icelanders are known for being rather quiet, that is until they’ve had a drink or two. Then suddenly they’re at their expressive, hearty, embracing Viking best! Beer is the drink of choice for most of them… But surprisingly, beer was actually illegal in Iceland, all the way up...
Thinking of travelling to Norway? You can choose to travel either during the summers or the winters. The experience is completely different in both cases. Travelling during the winters will give you an opportunity to catch up with the celestial northern lights and the arctic adventures whereas the summers give you an opportunity to experience...
Icelandic horse Icelandic horse is the only horse breed from Iceland. And it is what they call a pure-breed. This is a land where very few living creatures existed. Leave alone the horse. How did they come here? The history of this horse and the tradition is an interesting one. History of the Icelandic Horse - Pure...
