My journeys and me....

My writing journey started with an amateur blog cum memoir that I wrote about our pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar in 2012. The blog was very well received and it inspired me to keep recording my travel experiences and jotting down points.

Journeys2memories is simply a compilation of all those travel experiences over the years. The only real challenge was rummaging through photos to get the relevant ones, thanks to this blog now all my photos are in one place, numbered and catalogued.

Travelling has always been my passion. So far I have visited over 25 countries and about a 100 cities worldwide. 

During the course of these travels, I had some memorable experiences like watching the Bullfight in Madrid, Flamenco in Seville, Cabaret in Moulin Rouge, Paris, Tobogganing at Mount Pilatus, Switzerland, Visiting the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, Trekking to Bohemian Switzerland in Czech Republic, Visiting the salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria, Seeing a Mozart Music Concert in Vienna, Gondola ride on the Grand Canal in Venice, Whale watching in Victoria, British Columbia among many others. 

My travels within India have been no less interesting, from the mountains in Ladakh to the temples of Khajuraho to the backwaters of Kerala. I intend to keep adding more blogs in this category too in the future.

It would be a shame to not share such wonderful experiences with travel-lovers like myself.

Apart from writing travel memoirs, I also like to dabble in writing short stories and poetry, some of which got published in the form of anthologies by a Canadian publisher. I was also one of the winners of the prestigious Write India Contest, a short story writing contest organised by the Times of India Group in the year 2020. 

I speak three languages fluently, Hindi, my mother tongue, English, our primary language at work and German. I have taught German at the university level for many years. 

Rest assured, my bucket list of destinations that I wish to explore is still a long one.

May the journey continue .....