Waking up in a new country, actually a new continent altogether, and walking to the work place, taking in the chill, and the morning views on the way.. thats how I remember my first morning in Johannesburg (June 2019) 🙂 The first day was slightly tiring, possibly due to the travel, the winter chill (and... Continue Reading →
Green rosette #FridayFlowers
Loved this spread of green rosettes by the pool, in the hotel that we stayed in, at Johannesburg. Strictly speaking this is not a flower, but I'm inspired by its flower-like/rose-like appearance to post it in my #FridayFlowers edition 🙂 Thanks to the www, figured out that this succulent is of the genus Echeveria. I... Continue Reading →
Visit to the lion park #JohannesburgNotes
As mentioned in my earlier posts, the temperature in Johannesburg was quite lower than what I am comfortable with. Fortunately though, the sun was out during the weekend and the weather was perfect for our outings. On our return from Soweto, we'd lazed about the pool for a good while before eventually going indoors! The... Continue Reading →
Nelson Mandela Square #JohannesburgNotes
It was awesome that I was able to visit Soweto over the weekend, but it was a nice coincidence too that the place we stayed in is just walking distance from the Nelson Mandela square. We'd made sure we visited it on our 2nd evening in Johannesburg (took a day to get accustomed to the... Continue Reading →
African Lily #FridayFlowers
The highlight of the week's posts is the trip to Johannesburg. So, here are pics of the beauties that I happened to come across on the very first day there! Botanically speaking, this plant belongs to the genus Agapanthes and African lily/ blue lily are some of its common names. These take me back to... Continue Reading →
Snapshots from the Johannesburg trip #JohannesburgNotes
The agenda of the South Africa trip was to provide training to actual end users of the application that we are developing. It was a first for me. The days were filled with training schedules for different sets of people. It was quite an interesting experience due to the varied kinds of people involved and... Continue Reading →
Johannesburg Trees! #ThursdayTreeLove
During my recent blog hopping, I came across this blog where the ThursdayTreeLove is hosted. Me being a tree person through and through got instantly hooked and just had to do this today! 😀 Had a tough time going through the archives to select the tree pics though 😛 Finally selected a few of the... Continue Reading →
The tallest!
Yes! The Burj Khalifa!! Our journey to South Africa was via Dubai. It was only a brief stopover and there was to be no chance to venture out of the airport. So, made it a point to take in the view during landing and/or take off 😀 Here are a few pics that I clicked... Continue Reading →
Cloud Nine!
2019 has been special! I went on my first ever international trip.. to Johannesburg, South Africa!! When I started off in the current project, sometime in 3rd quarter of 2018, I realized that there were some trips planned in (for the bosses mainly). This was exciting especially because there's no travel plans in any of... Continue Reading →