DesiTraveller

 Do you need to travel by train suddenly, for a holiday or otherwise, but are daunted by the huge waiting lists that are increasingly common as the holiday and festival winter season draws nearer? Well, keep your bags packed, and be ready to travel as short notice. Not only are there going to be a large number of "festival special" trains, some have already been declared and can also be spotted on the booking websites, but there are often "special trains" declared on some routes at short notice. One way to do this is to keep looking for options on the booking websites, for your preferred routes, with the "Flexible with Date" option ticked. Another option that works very often is the quotas being released 4 hours before the train opted for departs from origin railway station or en-route charting station. Either which way, it is always good to check up on the booking websites about 4 hours before departure, as trains often open up with seats and berths avail...

  Destination weddings, or destination functions of any sort, are amongst the biggest evolutions of package tours without the tours. In most cases they comprise of taking a flight plus some other form of transport to a resort or a hotel, attending expensive choreographed functions, and then returning back to base. Getting wasted appears to be, often, one of the core objectives. Trying to imitate a random Hindi movie is another aspirational here. In almost all cases, all that this achieves is travel inside another tube, and food that tastes the same. In addition, your budget is likely to go totally out of shape on basics like drinking water and airport food, because those are not cheap. I have done a few destination weddings, in addition we also live in a second home sometimes in an Indian city which has a lot of destination weddings, so there is a wee bit of experience involved too. Destination weddings abroad are something else again. Here I try to tell readers how a good quality ...