About Neha Dara
Neha Dara wishes she was footloose (– adjective, free to go or travel about; not confined by responsibilities). But she constantly complains that she’s a travel editor who spends more time reading about other people’s travels than doing any of her own. Still, she manages to find enough time for extracurricular activities like floating down rivers on truck tyres, falling off a scooty in Diu’s bylanes, and a mad dash across India and Nepal in an autorickshaw, racing against the monsoon.
It’s right in the south, bordering Italy, in the Italian speaking part of country. The city sits at the edge of the lake, sprawling down a hillside. [Read more]

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The Swiss look at their watches often. Being on time is a national obsession. Every third shop sells watches. Every town has a watchtower, and the bell tolls for five minutes to mark the hour. [Read more]

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It’s 8 pm. I’m sitting in office and it’s pouring outside. I’m supposed to be filing a story, but I’m so distracted by the thought that I have to leave tomorrow and I still don’t know whether I have enough warm clothes that I haven’t been able to write a single straight sentence about the evolution of the Curriculum Vitae. [Read more]

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Posted by Neha Dara on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Filed under Travel · Tagged Alps waver, Andaman and Nicobar, cheese, chocolates, credit card, Curriculum Vitae, evolution, glacier, hiking shoes, hiking trips, ice grotto, itineraries, Office, ripples, Swiss Tourism
For a few days I’ve been hiding a secret. One that’s been bubbling and frothing away in the pit of my stomach – erupting every once in a while in a gleeful little giggle. [Read more]

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Posted by Neha Dara on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 12:45 am
Filed under Travel · Tagged ATM, European soil, giggle, Italian cuisine, Italy, itinerary, journos, magherita pizzas, maverick, sea food, Singapore, Switzerland, travel writer
Recently, I told you that I was going to open the blog out for a guest post. Almost immediately, I got a mail for Ajay Reddy, who runs the website www.tripnaksha.com. [Read more]

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Posted by Neha Dara on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 12:19 am
Filed under Travel · Tagged accommodation, adventure trip, blog, budget trip, destination, folk music, guest post, local friends, North East, out of the box, seven sisters, sleeping bag, tent, tourist attractions, twitter, www.couchsurfing.org, www.hitchhikingindia.com, www.tripnaksha.com