Eiffel Tower 1 Jan 1996 New Year’s Day. Our last day in Paris. We set off after 12 noon, Amar, BG and Venky to the police station and the Indian Embassy for FIR and duplicate passport, J, V, and me towards Musée de Orsay. The museum is closed on Mondays, so we walked along the…
Versailles, Notre Dame, Seine, Blanche 31 Dec 1995 Versailles Palace On 31st morning we went to the palace at Versailles, which is about 30 kms from Paris, but well connected by trains. (I can’t imagine what we’d have done if the public transport were on strike!) Versailles was glamorous and yes, beautiful. The township around…
Arrival 29 Dec 1995 Six of us – Jayesh, Vipul, Amar, BG, Venky, and me – all working in the UK through ICIM, decided to go to Paris for the new year weekend. We almost didn’t go, thanks to a public transport strike in France. Then the strike ended and the holidays were still there…
Shocked and saddened that the Notre Dame has burned down… CNN news article here: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/16/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-intl/index.html A pictorial homage to the Notre Dame from my photos from Jan 2012, the last time I saw it.
19th – 26th July 1997 Foreword 02 Apr 2026 These are from 31 pages of handwritten notes from July 1997, written across the trip itself – in hostel common rooms, on trains, on a station floor at 2am. I was 26, living in Reading UK, working for ICL on a project called OpenPAS. I’ve always…
These are from six pages of typed notes from Jan 1996, written about my first trip to Paris with a bunch of colleagues who were my social circle. We were all living and working in Reading, UK, for ICL (the parent company of ICIM, Pune India). Many of us were on a software project called…
