Life is a Journey Not a Destination: July 2014

Thursday 31 July 2014

The Best Part

Setting up a new home in a different city can be an experience by itself.... Getting to know the place...Finding a house on rent... meeting some helpful people & some who are definitely out to just make a quick buck. So as I say its the complete package!
After looking at 10 houses... the 11th one was 'the one'!!!

The best part about the new house is that its close to the airport so I get a chance to see different planes taking off n landing!!! Finally can watch at leisure instead of being driven away or rather whistled away by cops because they think I have bad intentions by taking pictures of beautiful planes!!!
FACT - I love Planes & the way they fly through the beautiful sky! Its a Man Made Bird!
I am always in AWE! Everytime I step on a plane there is a sense of WOW inside me that this beautiful thing is going to fly me!

Approach!

Cloudy BUT Sunny!

Lets Go!

Friday 11 July 2014

History at its Best

Being a wife of a Pilot I get to travel a lot. Its always lovely to visit a new place, learn about different cultures & the ways of life of different people. Recently got the news that my husband was getting a transfer to Kolkata & was real anxious & upset cause all my life have been a total Bombay (a.k.a Mumbai) Girl & did not want to move. But home is where the Heart is....
Came to visit the city & the first lovely thing I saw here was the grand "Victoria Memorial", which is a Beautiful marble building surrounded by a beautiful garden by the banks of the Hoogly River which was built between 1906 & 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria.
In January 1901, on the death of Queen Victoria, Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, suggested the creation of a fitting memorial. He proposed the construction of a grand building with a museum and gardens.
The Prince of Wales,King George V, laid the foundation stone on 4 January 1906 and it was formally opened to the public in 1921. In 1912, before the Victoria Memorial was finished, King George V announced the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to New Delhi. Thus, the Victoria Memorial was built in what would be a provincial city rather than a capital.