Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
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 [...]
Some people say it takes guts. Some say it takes willpower. I say, all it takes is a fraction of a second, when egged on by your conscience and a deep desire to break free from the mundane, you decide to give ‘solo travel’ a go! The more you think, the more it's not happening. [...]
“I don’t like to travel to see new places”, said nobody ever. With all our vacation plans still being fuzzy and blurry, travel might no longer be as carefree and spontaneous. Itineraries now have to consider flight re-routes, restrictions, health guidelines, accommodations adhering to safety measures and a whole lot of baggage the pandemic has [...]
Hello, my lovelies, in our run-up to our much-awaited hidden gems travel project, we are giving to you snippets from authors, the one that didn't quite make it to the book but remains noteworthy (today is my turn). I had heard about this unique 24 points unique experience connecting the 2 countries (Switzerland and Germany) [...]
It gives me immense pleasure in announcing that our second volume of “21 Hidden Gems of Switzerland” is only a couple of weeks away from its release. I am very excited for the launch, and I can assure you that we have surpassed ourselves this time around – we have fabulous authors and an even [...]