After a long walk from the car park through lush emerald greenery we came upon the honey- hued Bathstone splendid façade of the Basildon Park House in Reading England, a stunning Georgian Mansion set within 400 acres of woodland . We set out to explore its journey from an 18th century  home to a deserted […]

With a zest to view one of the world’s oldest collections of books and manuscripts, we headed for the Adyar International Theosophical society complex, which unlike its tongue twisting name was a mini paradise of natural beauty and multi-religion shrines. Leaving behind the commotion of Chennai city, we crossed a bridge over the river Adyar […]

One summer we had a chance to drive up North of England to the  seaside Bamburgh Castle in Northumbria . From the car windscreen  i spotted the dramatic ,intimidating  Castle , perched high up on a rock outcrop whose existence went back to the two thousand years. The Sandstone Castle could have been anywhere in […]

After viewing the 4000 years old mysterious marvel, the green chalk – Silbury Hill and the Neolithic period clandestine Avebury Stone Circles we headed for the Old Farmyard area through the Avebury Village . We were on a day long tour in Avebury village in Wiltshire, England.  As we walked on we tried to sum […]

We drove past a landscape of green fields and farms , here since the Neolithic age to witness one of the largest ancient Stone Circle of the World created in the 3rd millennium BC or before! We were in village Avebury a chalk-land in the river Kennet valley of South England . Parking our car […]

In a landscape of pristine verdant stretch of greenery , the 41meter high Silbury Hill- a rare Chalk grassland stands as a lone witness to the mystery of its creation . We were at the tallest prehistoric man- made chalk Mound in Avebury England created for inexplicable reasons 4000 years ago or before ! Strangely, […]