Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
While autumn is slowly giving way to winter, it's mostly a time to stay cozy in and stir in that hot chocolate. But this is also a time when the year's harvest takes place and a lot of fairs and festivals take place to bring some cheer to the cold gloomy days. One such very [...]
Yesterday, I woke up at the crack of dawn, made lunch, schlepped across Zurich for my 10 year old son’s German class, schlepped all the way back home, dropped my son off, picked up my daughter and travelled all the way across again in order to attend Durga Pujo - the Bengali/East Indian iteration of [...]
Living in Basel, we are fortunately wonderfully placed between the German and French borders and hence, the options of weekend getaways/day trips are plentiful. Just before we bid adieu to summer, last weekend we decided to visit the Todtnau Waterfall located in the heart of black forest. So, if you're looking for day trip ideas [...]
Ipsita Barua Using the tram, bus or train is the norm here. Not because you don't drive or own a vehicle, but because it's convenient, efficient and you can calculate on your apps the exact times of departure and arrival. I always wonder why can't they they round off the timings instead of 11:21 or [...]
Angela Warm Health Editor “You had me at yurt” I said to my friend when she invited us to join her family on a weekend hiking trip that involved a sleepover in a yurt. Staying in a yurt had been on my bucket list for a long time. I committed even before asking my husband, [...]
My Swiss Story 