Author: travtrails

Reporter/researcher/ feature writer/content writer/blogger/...the journey continues looking for the unusual and quirky., the realistic and make-believe. Travel writing happened by chance and now it is knowledge with enjoyment and learning... to know people, places, pastimes and pleasures Follow me as I hop onto the travel writing bus, one leisurely stop after another. 2020 was a breather we needed to recoup, rejuvenate and re-step for a sustainable travel agenda moving on to 2021

2020, Accidental Expat, Cities, IndiBlogger, Pune, Sense of Place, The Displaced Nation

PUNE JOURNAL – I Hate To Say Goodbye

by travtrails • January 6, 2021

‘Spring is too busy, too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.For that you need December. You need to have lived through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape…

2020, Beginnings, Cee's FOTD Challenge

Cee’s FOTD – Hibiscus

by travtrails • December 17, 2020

The simple Hibiscus is more than ‘cashmere-soft petals elegantly cupped with long stamens popping out from the centre …with dark-green pointed leaves’. The pop-up colors embellish my sombre mood with a hint of merriment. Some pictures from my garden in Pune. A Google search added the touch of mystery to this elegant flower. “In North…

2020, Festivities