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Travel Secret #363 Meet Victoria and Steve. She is a writer, he makes films. They run bridgesandballoons, a mega-popular blog that chronicles their worldwide travels. We asked them to spill their success secrets, and lo! Should one have a disciplined blogging routine? What’s your own blogging routine like? Victoria: Ideally, I think…
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Travel Secret #359 Chef Sabyasachi Gorai, popular as “Saby” is among the brightest stars on India’s culinary firmament. We chatted with him over cocktails at his lovely, laid-back Armenian-Bengali restaurant, Lavaash, located in Delhi’s leafy Mehrauli. Saby’s Secrets: Unforgettable food: Dinner at Casa Monini in Spoleto by Chef Angelo Franchini. Fresh truffle,…
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Sophie is a travel writer and co-founder of Travel Darkly. She wandered through many ‘dark tourist’ sites before she was aware they were categorised as such, including seeing Ho Chi Mihn’s body, the Killing Fields and Teoul Seng in Vietnam and Cambodia with Katherine. She’s been to cemeteries all over…
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Rolf Potts is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, Vagabonding (Random House, 2003) and Marco Polo Didn’t Go There (Travelers Tales, 2008). Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy, and he was the 2011-2012 Arts Edge Writer-in-Residence at the University…
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“Covering 3900 odd kilometers in a rickshaw is definitely no easy feat,” says Matt Dickens. whose superfun Rickshaw Run became a runaway hit from the word Go! Nearly 100 teams compete at one or all of the three runs each year, held in January, April and August. They race across the Indian subcontinent,…
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Meet Ahlawat Gunjan: Book designer and visual artist, Ahlawat Gunjan is graphic design graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a Masters in design from The Glasgow School of Art, UK and Purdue University, USA. Professionally trained in book design at Lars Mullers, Switzerland and Faber & Faber, London. Currently, he is managing…
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Chef Gennaro Rociola now runs Gerry’s Grill & Bistro in Adelaide, Australia. We met him some time ago, when he helmed the kitchen at Amour, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. Sample a snippet from our conversation, and the chef’s special recipe for crepes! How would you describe your style of cooking in one…
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Google Delhi-London and you’ll see scores of flight options. But ask Nidhi Tiwari, and she’ll show you the road map. Army wife and mother of two Nidhi has just returned from the longest drive of her life. Along with her friends Rashmi Koppar and Dr. Soumya Agarwal, she drove 23,800…
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Joint MD of ECO Rent A Car (professional car rental and ground transportation company), Aditya Loomba, oversees the three crucial areas of the company – Business Development, Sales and Marketing. When he is not infusing fresh blood into the company’s operations, Aditya can be found working out at the gym…
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HE SELLS SWEETNESS IN BRUSSELS Excerpts from our exclusive interview with top Belgian chocolatier Laurent Gerbaud: What makes Belgium the world chocolate capital? We have a very long history in processing chocolate since the beginning of the century, from small manufactures to big European players. Thanks to a very high quality industrial chocolate couverture, the general…
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