The Master Checklist….
All the planning in the world cannot prepare you for what South America has to offer. I hope to build the mother of all checklists through this post…. everything and anything one needs to look into...
View ArticleLost in Translation.. Lost in Pronunciation too..
If you think that the challenge is learning a foreign language, think again. That’s actually the easy part. Try flying to a continent, where supposedly you need to know only 2 languages – Spanish and...
View ArticleThe Great Welsh Showdown – Day 1 – On my way to becoming a Welsh Scholar…
It took us about 3 hours to head from our hotel in London to our language class in Wales. How efficient can traveling be in Britain? Train from Paddington Station in London to Cardiff was just about 2...
View ArticleLebanese Gangsta and fake British accents!
On my recent trip to Britain, I did some unimaginable and unaffordable stuff like stay in posh hotels, get a spa treatment, eat in fine dining places, get private tours of palaces et all. Mind you,...
View ArticleReality of Relocation
It has just been 3 weeks since I left Mumbai and technically moved to London, but actually spending more time in this little village called Fuschl outside Salzburg in Austria. No kidding. Feels like...
View ArticleWhat the hell do you actually mean?
The English are so polite that it sometimes takes them 2 minutes to ask for something – ‘would you be kind enough to pass the salt’ vs. ‘pass the salt’. One can easily code that as the ‘politest’ way...
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