The best of colonial living : The Delhi Gymkhana Club
Delhi Gymkhana Club. “You’ll get your dentures before your get a membership at the Delhi Gymkhana Club”, headlined a 2011 Times of India article about the Delhi Gymkhana Club. “That’s if you apply young”, the article went on, “It will be a 37-year wait if you apply now”. That’s the average number of years an…
Room service Maharajah-style!
Room service Maharajah-style! When we ordered tea and toast from room service for delivery at 5am, little did we know that room service at the Oberoi Rajvilas in Jaipur is taken to a whole new level. The waiter brought a toaster to the room and patiently toasted six pieces of bread to perfection before…
Battielal and the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve!
Battielal was our naturalist guide for our game drives through the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, a town located about 100 miles southeast of Jaipur, reached by way of a four-hour hair-raising, constantly bumpy but most interesting drive. Until 1971, the year Indira Gandhi brought about a constitutional amendment which took away most of…
Basel ~ For the love of Art, History & Gastronomy
BASEL, for the love of Art, History, & Gastronomy For years the Swiss city of Basel has been closely associated in my mind with two famous and fabulous exports, Art Basel and Roger Federer. If you are an art connoisseur, you know of the first export, and if you love tennis, you are for sure a…
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