Travel Stories and Life Events
you can find interesting stories of all the tourist places that we visited
I had the opportunity of visiting various important places in London within the limited time at my disposal. The Queen Vicotria Memorial is one of them. In Kolkata, India we have the very famous Victoria Memoria where thousands of tourists visit everyday and I may have visited more than thrice. As per wikipedia The Victoria … Read more
Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London (at grid reference TQ299800). It is the site of the annual ceremonies of Trooping the Colour, which commemorates the monarch’s official birthday, and the Beating Retreat. History As per wikipedia the Horse Guards Parade was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehall‘s tiltyard, where tournaments (including jousting) were held in the time of Henry VIII. It was also the … Read more
Admiralty Arch in London During my trip to UK i visited many places during weekends and one such is Admiralty Arch in London which is said to be the providing road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the southwest, and Trafalgar Square to the northeast. As per Wikipedia Admiralty Arch is a … Read more
While going around Oxford city where i met Maureen Roberts who was Director HR and Admin in Oxfam head office in Delhi..Maureen used to visit all field offices and i had the opportunity of meeting her a number of times during OITSA..oxfam staff association ..meetings…in fact i met her in Oxfam headquarters in Oxford and … Read more
Trafalgar Square in London is one of the very popular squares. This is in Central London and this location is very popular for feral pigeons. Whenever you come to this place you will find large gathering of pigeons and people take pictures of these and tourists are allowed to feed them. I am happy to … Read more
We had an annual review and team building exercise done at Gopalpur, Ganjam. In this all Oxfam Bhubaneswar staff participated – this was done immediately after the 2000 flood relief and rehabilitation. Since this was done for all the staff including the relief and rehabilitation staff. In addition to individual introductions, sharing of experiences. This … Read more
Immediately after Tsunami I joined Save the Children UK as Finance and Grants Officer in Sri Lanka in 2005….I was posted in Matara the southern province in Sri Lanka….Like southern province other parts of Sri Lanka like Trincomalai,Batticolai,Ampara, were most affected..in south Galle,Hiikaduwa,Matara and some stress o Ambantota were affected…Pascale Benchayat (she is a Frech … Read more
I first met Joe Human in Oxfam Bangalore where Oxfam conducted a training programme on staff development related where Joe was the facilitator. I can remember exactly UT was my early days in Oxfam..I was very young straight from college..sometime early 1980s….doesn’t have much exposure . Then after that Joe and his wife came to … Read more
OITSA – OXFAM India Trust Staff Association – Oxfam has its field officies all over India – to name Hyderabad,Lucknow,Kolkata,Bhubaneswar,Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Since Oxfam has a large number of staff across these State level offices above. Oxfam has its headquarters in Oxford, UK. Since Oxfam has been working since 1942 – has been the top … Read more
Two pieces of Two Rupee note in Ahmedabad While working for Oxfam I had to attend a workshop in Ahmedabad…To reach Ahmedabad I had to take a flight from Kolkata to Mumbai and from there another flight to Ahmedabad…reached late night… my flight to Ahmedabad was cancelled..hence I had to take next morning flight..the airlines … Read more