Part 1 Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road This is about some of memories of my romantic and pleasant road journey in Europe ... A couple of years back I got a phone call from my daughter who was doing MBA in an internationally top ranking business school in France . She told “ Mom , both you and papa have to come here in another two weeks . “ “ But why ? “ “ I am going to get my MBA degree . My convocation is in the second week ...Read More

Part 2 Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Day 1 Kick - After breakfast we left Fountainbleau around 10 am . Our first destination was French Riviera , Nice . This is a beautiful tourist spot in south east France on the coast of the Mediterranean sea . But it was about 800 km from Fountainbluea and about 9 hours of road journey . We started in my daughter ‘s car Estrogen . It was a new beautiful small car but enough for the three of us . She was driving it and the ...Read More

Day 2 Part 3 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road lunch in the restaurant of Nice and getting some stuff packed for our onward journey , we went back to our hotel . In fact my daughter was too tired and needed some rest for the upcoming long road journey to Italy . We all relaxed in the afternoon . Again in the evening we stepped out of the hotel to see colorful Nice in the night . We did enjoy some rides near the beach before retiring back to the hotel . We ...Read More

Part 4 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Day - 3 On this day all of us felt relaxed after the complete rest of the previous day . We were again excited to see one of our biggest dream destinations, Venice . I used to read in books about beautiful Venice or see it on screen in movies including the one of Big B and Zeenat Aman while picturising equally beautiful song on a Gondola …” Do lafzon ki hai ye dil ki kahani ….” We left Pisa after a complimentary breakfast in the hotel ...Read More

Part 5 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Day 5 On this day the was very good in the morning neither hot nor cold . Beautiful blue sky above equally beautiful greenish blue or bluish green venetian ( not very sure ) lagoon . We set out to the motor launch station . The launch man with a guide was waiting for us with a few more tourists . We were going to visit three most famous islands of Venice - Murano , Torcello and Bureno . The trip would be an over five hours ...Read More

Concluding Part 6 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Dya 8 We had already our stuff the previous night and just kept one dress for each to wear in the morning before departure . We were set to see Milan and a couple of more small Italian cities on the way back to Paris . Venice to Paris was a long drive around 14/15 hours. Milan was our overnight stopover point during our return trip . We had heard about four ‘ Fashion Capitals ‘ of the world - London , Paris , New York ...Read More