I became an avid traveler at about the same time as I became an avid reader. I sat with my books in one cozy corner and took off to exotic locations. As a six year old I went all over England with a Peter and Jane series prescribed by the school. England was followed by ancient India, which...

It’s a beautiful day in Zagreb. The sun is blazing through with a ferocity I have come to associate only with an Indian summer. But here I am, many miles away, in the same soft white cottons. My balcony door is wide open, bringing in the morning sounds of traffic; horizontal beams of sun come...

One of the first recommendations that you receive as an expat in Zagreb is the coastal town of Opatija. Maybe it’s to do with proximity, or may be it’s an initiation ceremony, a detox centre, if you please, to shake off the city rust and begin a new way of life: unhurried and laid back. We...