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Madrid: Old Town
Jan 12th
My impression of Madrid would probably have been permanently influenced by the few days I spent there. The hotel I stayed in (Palacio San Martin) was a nice old building in a nice old part of town. (A quick aside – it has creepy lights that switch on when motion sensors detect you moving in More >
Back in Bombay
Jan 11th
That trip ended finally. It was cold in Europe to the point that the day on which temperatures rose to 3 degrees was the warmest of the trip. This cold spell could be the beginning of a decade or more of lower temperatures, if one were to believe the theory that the global warming / More >
Madrid: Two
Jan 9th
Today is my free day in Madrid. But for the freezing cold, it would have been a much more active day. I had a morning walk to the Puerta del Sol, a few minutes from the hotel. After that I had a two hour city tour covering many highlights including the main cathedral and the More >
Geneva: Two
Jan 7th
This is going to be a quick one. Posting from Geneva airport on the way out to Paris and Madrid. The weather is terrible across northern Europe incl. Paris, so I tried to get out of this route into a direct to Madrid. But Air France refused to let me cancel or even “no show” More >
Geneva: One
Jan 6th
Part 1: Getting Here
It is the end of the holiday season and tickets were hard to come by, so I was put on a route through Paris CDG on Air France. The flight was nothing to talk about, but Paris CDG almost put LHR to shame this time. Firstly it is freezing weather (at the More >