vivek sekar

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci

Category: Travel

northern lights

Ecstasy

the bright arctic sun goes down and brings about the light blue dusk into the horizon. and the temperature follows suit by going down a few notch below zero. the skies calm down with an eerie gradient from bluish green to blue and dark navy blue. and the breeze coming in from the sea across to [...]

pilgrimage

its pilgrimage time of this year, and along with karthick i am heading to the ritualistic Norway. This time the places are everything  that between Oulu and Narvik, Bodo, Salthdal. spanning across Finland, Sweden, Norway. This has become a rudimentary start post before every trip, with the follow up posts never seeing the light of [...]

change is what i need

25 years have come by and each day , week, month and year has been a change. but this time around, its a change in my address 25 years, and close to 20 changes in my address, some within a city, some to new cities, and some to new countries. now i demand change for [...]

layers

first and then second, taking a breather. followed by the third and fourth. zipping them together and sealing all the open ends. entering the first gas chamber, as the temperature takes a dip. through the shaft, i move down to the lower layers to near the door to the second gas chamber. clicking and a [...]

another year another christmas plan

Christmas is just a week off and as usual i am leaving Finland for some warmer retreats. i have pretty much been sold the lonely experience it is when in Finland for christmas, everything stops and everyone celebrates with their families. So this time the haunts for Christmas for me are : Amsterdam, France and [...]