Luxe Time

Preeti Verma Lal - The machine is finished. It goes no further….” the driver said, his throaty inflexion adding to the purr of the dying engine. The train had hissed its last breath somewherebetween Frankfurt and Luxembourg. “Go to next stop at Trier, Germany’s oldest city. Or run to the next platform, that red train goes to Luxembourg,”he said. I looked at my Eurail Global Pass, the 6x3 inch beige pass with my name in sans serif which could take me to 21 countries, but before I could throw a dart on the map ...  more

Preeti Verma Lal
December in Munich

Imperia

I’m stepping over pine cones and manoeuvring myself sideways between columns of streamers and dangling glass angels. I have to be careful, lest my right elbow brush against the crystal ornaments hanging from the Christmas tree; in my left hand is a precariously balanced mug of hot Glühwein. Around me, the faint, uplifting sound of carols can be heard in the rare intervals between peals of laughter... more