This is a rant, but it's a rant that led to me figuring out why I may even weigh a lot to begin with. Let me set some context. I'm 5'6 tall woman, who from outwardly appearance would be probably described as in the
Writing this as I'm wrapping up my Thailand Trip and heading back to India. The last week has been a week of lots of firsts - I went snorkelling, ate at a Michellin star restaurant, swam in the ocean on my own and got a massage for first
The last couple of days have been pretty tough. After a couple of weeks of pain during runs and rest, I finally got a prognosis from my doctor that I have a knee injury which requires a minimum of 6 weeks of rest. The news was quite a blow for
On the 1st of January 2025, I decided that I would start cooking all my meals on my own. For context, until late December, I had a cook who prepared three meals a day, and for the rest of my meals, I mostly ate self-made or store-bought snacks. (Yes, I
Like most others in their 20s I've also jumped on the running bandwagon over the past 8 months. Today when I reflect on it, it's become a part of who I am, without me realising it or not. I now wake up early for runs, a
This weekend was one of the best I've had in a while in all honesty. I hosted a friends-olympics aka sports-day for my friends in Bangalore, with the full shenanigans of medals and stuff. Seeing so many of my friends coming together to play warmed my heart, in
I just got to know that I just hit a 500 day streak on Duolingo 😎 so here's my brain dump on a bunch of things Duolingo has taught me, what it's helped me with, what Duo's gotten right, and ofc what it's
Since I haven't wrote anything in a while here, here's why: Got a bit caught up with life a lot of huge changes in my work life, social life, heath-wise, living situation-wise and even in the people in my life. While this isn't per
TLDR: Random Thoughts from Charu's brain on a Saturday morning at Home Yesterday I spent the day, plucking mangoes, cleaning them and then prepping them for the ripening process with my family. It made me start to wonder if my kids would ever have these experiences. And by
This will be a super short post, but wanted to make this an archive of all the treks I've done so here it goes. Again did the night trek, so left Bangalore at 11pm the previous night and after 2 hours of getting stuck in Bangalore traffic, we
On Friday, as I lazed away my work-from-home day, my flatmate tells me she thinks we should go on a trek this week. I ask her, "Skandagiri?" and she says "chalna hai?" and the next thing we know we're booking a planned trip to
After years of complaining how running is so boring an activity, I think I've decided to change my mind and I think I may have kind of cracked what makes people get into running. For some context, I've had a bucket list since I was quite
All my life I convinced myself would be amazing, when I had a job I loved and time to do all of my favorite hobbies on the side, and an amazing community of people I enjoyed hanging with on the weekends. I now work reasonable hours with people I enjoy
It's been over a month since I started my first real job and moved to Bangalore! And I've got to say it's been quite an eventful month. After years of ranting about how much I hate Bangalore on the 8th of November 2023, I
The past few days have really been mostly been about pushing my body's limits. I had the chance to visit India's first MTB (Mountain Biking) Adventure Park in India, at Circuit Wheelz, Wayanad. This trail runs both uphill and downhill through beautiful scenic mountain views, waterfalls
Flights: ₹10,531 Kochi- Delhi : ₹5340 Delhi-Leh: ₹3547 Srinagar-Jammu: ₹1644 Trains: ₹1991.85 Kozhikode - Aluva: ₹413.95 Jammu - Ludhiana: ₹798.95 Ludhiana - Delhi: ₹778.95 Cabs, Buses, Other Transport: ₹5750 Leh - Kargil(Bus): ₹500 Kargil - Srinagar(Sumo): ₹1500 Petrol+Bike(Leh): ₹1000 Sumos: ~₹500 Autos:
As somebody who uses a tonne of public transport to get around, I did no different in Srinagar, the capital city of J&K. However, unlike normal modes of transport - buses, trains, metro, even shared autos - Srinagar stands apart. Here the major source of public transport are
Firstly, let me start off by telling my readers that I didn't plan on eating so much in Leh.
As I write from Srinagar today, I'd just like to appreciate BRO (Border Road Organisation) for making my trips of the last week possible. BRO develops and maintains road networks in India's border areas and comes under the ownership of Department of Defence, Govt of India.
Read the complete cost break up of my last trip.
Pondicherry was the first stop of my 42 day trip - Didn't think it would be this long when I started out :)
Bhopal has probably been a extremely underrated location on my trip. Never expected to find one of India's most liveable cities according to my definitions.
Bodh Gaya has probably been one of the funniest and weirdest of any of my trips till date. These are possibly the stories I'll tell as an 80 year old lady.
Travel routes of all my trips from June to September 2023.