Engaiyum Kadhal.......

Such an ease guess, isnt it? Yes, we are gonna take a romantic ride across the world's popular tourist spot known for its architecture,history,monuments,romance,fashion,leading brands,theme park,museums.Still guessing???

Lemme give you some easy clues - engaiyum kadhal, mona lisa, Louis Vuitton, Statue of Liberty, Da Vinci Code....you should have guessed it now!!!! Yes, its Paris Paris :))

We did a 5 days trip to this beautiful city to celebrate Sudha's visit, Shravan's second Birthday and offcourse to finish our so-called honeymoon trip planned in 2008(Most of you should be knowing our Italy passport story by now :))

Day One: All day travelling from Kongsberg to Rygee and from there to Paris. Sounds simple??? From Konsberg to Oslo Central is 1.5 hours train journey. Then from Central to Rygee is another 1 hour train travel. From the station to Airport is another 15 minutes. Rygee to Paris was another 2 hours on flight. Have we reached? Not yet!!!! From Airport to Station was another 1 hour bus ride and another round of train journey to reach Gard'le East :)) Is it this complicated? Oh yeah if you want select a cheapest airways, stay in outskirts and want a decent accommodation :))) This tiring journey had a happy ending....Dinner at Saravana Bhavan

Day Two: Its Disney Time. Well this is my third Disney trip - Los Angels, Florida and now Paris :) but the excitement and fun is only tripled.

Shravan was all excited right from the entrance. Tickets and few clicks, then my handsome and his darling got geared up in their Disney costumes.

Of the four parks, we first landed on Disney Park for the kids. Its afterall  their day :) Both were busy running around all the places seeing their cartoon characters, I kind of forgot that I had to click because I was so engrosed in seeing my son so damn happy! He had lot of place to run around, it was sunny, no winter outfit, I guess he thoroughly enjoyed and so did we.

Day Three: The day of maximum clicks :) First was Louvre Muesum. The first thing that came to my mind was Da Vince Code and Tom Hanks :))

First Glimpse of the Pyramid :) Never knew it had a smaller Pyramid ;))

I am gonna watch Da Vinci Code tonight :)

From the ticket counter

from inside the Muesum. Not a bad shot ah.

Here comes the much awaited click of the day :) Mona Lisa

Half a done gone. Lunch Over. Where next? The very obvious destination - Eiffel Tower. The first sight of the tower from the Metro just wowwed!!!

I just went on clicking until satisfied with my P&S Camera.

we are getting closer and closer to the world heritage monument

Took a break from clicking and really started enjoying the fact "being in eiffel tower :)". What a beautiful garden view from the top of the tower.

Sun waved a good night and a laser treat started.

It was one memorable day to be cherished all through my life :)

Day 4: It was the catchup day. Early start from the hotel, a quick BF in Mc. Donald's and straight to Mont Matre hill for a holy visit to the Sacre Coeur Church.Loved the hill climbing and garden around. Church interior was equally amazing and cameras were restricted, so just trust me its awesome :))

Where next, Am I not missing another famous destination? :) Its the Gateway of France - the Arc De Triomphe :)

P.S I clicked this pic while crossing and gave my dear hubby another chance to gyan :))

Then was a nice long walk around the fashion road. The Mantra was "You Name the Brand and Spot the Shop".

As I mentioned in the start, here come LOUIS VUITTON.....remember Louis Vuitton Kanadi from Ko...I have heard of he brand, but never thought you need to stand in Queue for hours to just get inside the shop.

We just had 2-3 hours left out for sunset and after discussions finally decided to take a beautiful cruise ride to  enjoy sunset, water ride and a quick glimpse of all the spots again.

This is that beautiful boat :)

A View of Norte Dame Church was stunning :) A glimpse similar to what you get in Sherlock Holmes Movie.

Excuse me for the poor lighting.

So day 4 ended like any other with a sumptous dinner at Saravan Bhavan.

Day 5: You wanna a reverse of what I explained Day 1??? ;))))

Fall foliage

Being born brought up in India, chennai to be very precise seeing fresh green trees itself is such a refreshing view :). You need to make a trip all the way to Kerala or Coorg or somewhere interior South India to catch the glimpse of fresh green leaves. That being the case, Imagine migrating to the east coast of United States which experiences all four seasons accordingly every quarter. As the leaves started turning from green, more did my camera started clicking :) Its yellow, red, orange, brown, marroon......what more can you ask for :)))

There was a beautiful lake behind my place in Jersey say 15 mins walk from home. Its truely a Paradise. I had enjoyed walking through those woods in summer, fall and winter, everytime with so much of happiness, peace and ofcourse clicks :))

Do you agree with me ? :))
Let me enroute you to this beautiful lake....

Doesnt this yellow backgroud takes you back to Allaipayudhey days....

Kongsberg is equally beautiful, isnt it?

Okay now enough of Yellows lets see some Oranges :)

What color next...you want red???

This was actually taken in Oslo...see I have moved from paradise to another ? Juz kidding :)).

Shravan juz loves walking over those yellow turned brown leaves with all smiles on his face because of the sound it makes :))

Let me add more colors to these already beautiful colors....yeah!!! below are some of Shravan's picture in stunning backgrounds :)

I just love the below two clicks....

Hope you liked them :) Now that fall is over and winter already started, oh yeah!!! it just started snowing :) So more of white colors in the next blog ;)

New York Nagaram Urangum Neram......

New York Nagaram Urangum Neram....Thanemai Thanemai'ey......I love this song and every time I listen to this it makes me Nostalgic refreshing my memories with New York . Well though this song was not shooted there, its lyrics are very catchy and puts a smile on the face, to hear New York Nagaram Urangum....does this ever happen???...Not at all!!!! The streets or atleast the Times Square is always bustling with people. I have tried till 1AM in the morning, it is always crowded and happening :)

Being in New Jersey was a paradise. I just love the country, my county, my office, my apartment, my room-mate, my friends...oh god!!! let me not become emotional here :). New Jersey is calm,serene and blooming rightly named as Garden State.But with just one hour ride, you reach the most happening place on the globe - New York.

I would have made atleast a dozen visit to this place everything to see or experience one place :). You can shop, eat, watch tamil/hindi movies, visit museums, monuments,stroll in the central park, take a ride on the water car, or just walk walk walk!!!!

Ok, lets take a quick photo ride across New York. For any new comer or tourist, Times Square is the landmark. My first visit to New York was on 31st Dec 2005 to watch New Year celebration in Times Square. Imagine the already crowded place getting more crowds to watch the ball coming down!!! Though we reached the place at afternoon 3PM itself, we could never get the glimpse of it, but I just loved being in New York every minute.

for all the chocolate lovers,

for all the coffee lovers,

a closer look at Times Square

oh yeah, the NASDAQ

I do have more pictures in my other hard disk which is still in India. Will get it soon and take you across many other famous shops in New York.

Now, lets take a road trip across few of the destined spots in New York - Empire State, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller,New York Stock Exchange, the very old church in New York Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.

a view of Chrysler from Empire State,

I Love the Rockefeller Center and will never forget the Ice Skating experience.

No trip to New York is complete without visiting the beautiful lady from France, Yes the Statue of Liberty!!!

An eagle ready to fly off in Liberty park, It somehow looks so damn powerful to me, everytime I kind of see this picture, I think its a real one

Well, now comes a scene from Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya......

yes, the Brooklyn Bridge :( People who read my previous blog will definitely know the reason for my sad smiley. Below are some of the stitch assist I tried with my canon powershot from Brooklyn bridge.

For all the Museum Lovers, New York could be one of our favorite destination. Of the many I visited, I love the Bodies-the exhibition, Natural History Museum and ofcourse the Madam Thussad's Wax Museum.

I am missing the Grand Central Station (One of the world Busiest Metro), Central Park and Twin Tower Memorial pictures. Will upload as soon as I get my other hard disk.

If you already love New York or you want to get more glimpse of it - its Manjal Veiyal Malaiyelay from Vettaiyadu Vilayadu :)) Kaml and Jo will take you for a better ride :))