Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road - Novels
by S Sinha 
in
English Travel stories
This is about some of my 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 ...Read Morebusiness 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 of July . Both of you are coming here , no excuse . “
“ I have only a US visa , how can I get it so soon? “
“ Just talk to your regular travel agent . It’s not a big deal “
“ OK, you hang up, let me try . “
Part 1 Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road This is about some of my memories of my romantic and pleasant road journey in Europe ... A couple of ...Read Moreback 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
Part 2 Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Day 1 Kick off - After breakfast we left Fountainbleau around 10 am . Our first destination was French Riviera , Nice ...Read MoreThis 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
Day 2 Part 3 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road After lunch in the restaurant of Nice and getting some stuff packed for our onward journey , we ...Read Moreback 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
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 . ...Read Morewere 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
Part 5 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Day 5 On this day the weather was very good in the morning neither hot nor cold . Beautiful blue sky above equally beautiful greenish blue ...Read Morebluish 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
Concluding Part 6 - Memories of Journey - Paris to Rome by Road Dya 8 We had already packed our stuff the previous night and just kept one dress for each to wear in the morning before departure ...Read More 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
