Traveling Thursday: Neemrana, Rajasthan!

Hey everyone!

Since I didn't manage to get some pics for WHW this week, I'm gonna do another edition of Traveling Thursday, and since I already shared photos of Jaipur, I thought of sharing with you the photos of our first weekend trip to Rajasthan, to the gorgeous resort of Neemrana!

Neemrana is a 15th century palace converted into a fantastic resort, with wonderful artwork everywhere, lovely surroundings, and typical Rajasthani food!

The balcony of our room, such gorgeous views

Amazing views of one side of the palace

You could see the main entry doors from our balcony!

There were plenty of gardens to take a break and have your food

Gaurav & me ready to enjoy dinner!

Neemrana was really a photographer'd dream! Always something worth clicking at every turn!

Traveling Thursday: Tunisia!

Hello everyone!

After working two night shifts of a row, celebrating a friend's b-day (with Red Velvet cupcakes again), I'm now back to somewhat regular scheduled blogging, which can get iffy soon, as I'm leaving for India next week! I JUST CAN'T WAIT!

So, today I'm sharing with you the photos of my first international trip on this week's Traveling Thursday, our "end of uni" trip to Tunisia in 2001! Before this, I knew I wanted to travel loads and visit many places, but this trip confirmed that I'd have a blast doing so! This was the first time I needed a passport, so I got my passport when I was 20, and have been collecting stamps on it since!

The Star Wars geek in me was super happy when we visited some locations used in the movies during our trip, and my classmates really did a bit of head shaking on my geekiness!

The Matmata caves, better known as the Lars Homestead!

My first ride on a dromedary! (Also I learnt the difference between a camel (two humps) and a dromedary (just one)

One would expect the desert to be hot, even in Feb, right? Well, not so much!

We visited an oasis, and had a great time exploring around!

We also visited one of the best preserved Roman's colliseums in Jem!

JPAT Purses!

Hello there!

Yes, I know, it is neither Monday nor Sunday, so you must be wondering if I'm finally updating the blog with something other than our weekly photography challenge? Well, the answer, indeed, is YES!

I've been overworked, sleeping badly, tired and un-motivated as of late. Worried about plans, and paperwork on one side, and with work with very few days off in between... I wasn't feeling like blogging much. But finally with a few days off, I'm finally going back to my long list of pending blog entries!

I'm starting with JPAT Purses, a great shop that I added to my favourites a few months ago. As everyone that knows me, knows I'm crazy about all sorts of bag and purses, and she has some really unique items in her shop!

I fell in love in particular with her Notebook Click It Wallets, which I found would be really useful for me on my sort-of-frequent plane trips (flying twice a year to India teaches you a few things about hand-luggage), and though I loved the design of it, and saw it on really nice fabrics, I didn't see one that I thought it was really ME. That was till I saw another of her bags in this really cute cherry fabric, and I thought "What if I ask her if she can make me a custom one?".

The whole process couldn't have been easier! She responded right away to my Etsy convo, was delighted to work on my custom Notebook Wallet, and three days after purchasing the custom listing, my new wallet was on its merry way to Spain!

It got here really soon, and it looked the perfect blend of cute and functional!

With its many slots/pockets for all the documents & stuff you need to have handy and in one place when travelling! You can have the passport, plane tickets, boarding passes, the info about the different passports and any other print outs of your vacation (hotels reservations and the like) and it fits right into your purse, making sure you don't have to fish around for any of them!

I always have waaay too many things in my purse, and that's why I like to have small pouches for make-up, hand sanitizers and the like, pencil cases and now this is the perfect complement for my hand-luggage bag! It fits like a charm inside my Dolly Bowling Bag, and it fits a number of my other roomy purses and bags perfectly too!

She has a lot of other unique and cute pouches and purses too, and right now she's having a big SALE for discontinued items, like her Eco baggies and her boxy zipper pouches, so if you want to check her out, I'm sure you'll find something you'll love in her shop!

I'll try to be back tomorrow with another blog entry... I have a lot of blog entries pending of pics, so I may work on that now... or maybe after an episode or two of Torchwood!