Tag: going away

• Why Can’t You Smell Your Own Home?

  

  I discovered this fascinating article on The Cut “Why Can’t You Smell Your Own Home?“. It talks about how we get so used to smells that are non-threatening we stop sensing them. It seems that we “tune out” the smells, which probably explains why we stop smelling a perfumed candle or a pillow spray, after…

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  11 Jan 2019

  Awareness, Read, Story

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• Oh, Stop It Holland!

  

  Oh, Stop It Holland! Just stop being so very gorgeous all the time. We drove to Keukenhof on a rainy morning. The pitter patter of drops and a chilly wind gathering speed. Having been to the famous garden ten years ago, and then repeatedly with various visitors, I wondered if it would hold its irrepressible appeal…

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  1 May 2018

  Apoorva, Audience, Customer Review, Photography, Story, Travel

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• Day Two: Visit to the Kroller Muller museum

  

  On the second day of our weekend in Oosterbeek we went to the Kroller Muller museum. Set in the Hoge Veluwe forest, the museum is in my opinion, the perfect way to view art. It houses the second largest Vincent van Gogh collection in the world: “almost 90 paintings and more than 180 drawings.” Along with…

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  4 Nov 2017

  Apoorva, Art, Awareness, Customer Review, Photography, Story, Travel

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• Day One: Weekend at Oosterbeek

  

    We had a tranquil weekend in the east of The Netherlands, nestled in the Veluwe, at the Oosterbeek Bilderberg. About an hour’s drive from Amsterdam with plenty of walking trails in autumn hues Oosterbeek was everything we wanted it to be and some more. The ability to unplug and exhale in the middle of a…

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  31 Oct 2017

  Apoorva, Customer Review, Food, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

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• Going away – a visit to NIAS

  

  Our team at work went for an offsite to NIAS in Wassenaar. I wrote a small feature on the outing. I am sharing a snippet (the one which Purab made me read out again): Autumn is an extraordinary season. The trees laden with orange, brown and red, shed their leaves. Ripe with the experiences of the…

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  22 Nov 2014

  Academic, Apoorva, Photography, Story, Travel

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