Day 1 (27th May 2011) Hebbar family and we traveled from Reading at around 11:30AM. As Birmingham temple is on the way to Lake District, we planned to visit. Unfortunately, when we reached it was closed after its morning Pooja. What to do, just bought Laddu as Prasadam and headed towards Penrith in the lake district. Had to face huge traffic congestion on M40 and witnessed serious accidents. This traffic delayed our final destination of the day by 1.5 hours. Reached our beautiful self-serving cottage at around 5:00PM. After settling for a while we all went to Morrisons to do grocery shopping which was necessary for our 3 days tour.  Day 2 (28th May 2011) Cooked breakfast and had a very relaxing breakfast in our own time. At 11:00AM we all started our started seeing in pre-booked 7 seater vehicle. Just had a drive towards William Wandsworth village in rainy weather. Had our lunch in the same village and just decided to go for a drive around the lake district and enjoy the scen

Hallo (hello)! Facts about Amsterdam: 1. Amsterdam is one of the capitals with most museums in the world 2. Amsterdam has more canals than venice 3. Amsterdam has more bike than it's population 4.  Amsterdam is well below sea level and at the lowest point of Amsterdam it is 6.7 meters below sea level Day 1(22nd April 2011) This time we toured with Kishor and Chethan families, nice to have big group. We travelled in Eurostar till Brussels from Kings Cross and took another train from Brussels to Amsterdam Central. Reached Amsterdam at around 2:00PM. Had our lunch in the Amsterdam Central station and then bought group cruise ticket for the evening. With the plan set for rest of the day, reached our Hotel Arena via the Indian themed tube. Tube was very nice and neatly maintained. Checked in to our hotel, took some rest with beers. And then all decked up fro evening Amsterdam Cruise trip. Enjoyed the cruise trip for 1 hour and entire Cruise was ours. The driver was kind enough

Guten Tag (Hello)! Finally I decided to blog our well relished Swiss tour. I hope you enjoy reading it. Some facts about Swiss before starting the blog: 1. Its situated in Western Europe, bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. So, we find different spoken languages across Swiss - French, German, Italian and Romansch 2. Neither Geneva nor Zurich is the capital of Swiss, it's Bern 3. Swiss is the birthplace of Redcross 4. Well known tennis players Roger Federer and Martina Hingis are from Swiss Day 1 (09 September 2011) The tour started pretty early (too early for Satty!) from Hebbar's house as we had to catch the flight from Gatwick Airport at 8:15AM. Flight journey wasn't long at all, it took shorter time than the time it takes me to reach office. With a beautiful bird's-eye view of Geneva Lake, landed at Geneva airport before noon. Since, we thought of covering the Golden Pass