Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
BY IPSITA BARUA Travel Editor -4° degrees. You are soaked in a hot thermal bath 1, 450 metres above sea level, letting the jacuzzi jets massage your muscles. The open sky above you. Snow beneath you. And the imposing Alps all around you. If you sigh and think this is stuff winter dreams are made of, [...]
Author: Ipsita Barua, Travel Editor This time of the year can be challenging for both mood and meals. No sun, barely any fun and too much time indoors already make you miss spring BBQs and summer picnics. Add to that the daily task of looking up soup recipes, planning and cooking hot meals every day. [...]
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 [...]