Vinay Payyapilly
Room P01, Vanenburg
Monday morning we moved into the Vanenburg premises. I have been allotted room P07, which just happens to be, along with P01, the best...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 19, 20044 min read
Amsterdam – The War between the Old and the New
Amsterdam has one of the highest population densities in the world, and it shows. After the countryside of Putten and the quiet country...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 18, 20043 min read
Utrecht & The Museum of Musical Instruments
Utrecht is bang in the middle of the Netherlands. It is the heart of the railway network and is a town that seems to be fighting to...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 14, 20042 min read
Bureaucratic Red Tape
There was an article by Shobha De long ago, it was in the Indian Express I think, that spoke about speed breakers. She compared the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 13, 20044 min read
Trains in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is a small place as compared to India; this has enabled them to develop a fairly efficient railway system. Even though...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 12, 20042 min read
Rambling Thoughts
Here are a few things about NL that don’t really fit into my daily updates, and since I didn’t do anything in particular today, that is,...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 12, 20042 min read
Rotterdam
On Saturday we started early – 7:30 am. We began what we thought was a short walk to the railway station. As it turned out, it was a walk...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 12, 20041 min read
A Quiet Sunday in Putten
Sunday found us too tired to make the trip to Amsterdam and so we decided to postpone that to the following weekend. We went to meet up...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 12, 20041 min read
Landal Heihass, Putten
On arriving at Vanenburg Castle we were given to understand that there was no rooms booked for us, and so we were to be put up at Landal...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 8, 20043 min read
Hyderabad – Bombay – Zurich – Amsterdam – Putten
I thought long and hard for a name for my chronicles. Given that fact the the dutch have the only sex museaum in the world Dirty Dutch...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 27, 20041 min read
Munnabhai MBBS
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Gracy Singh, Arshad Warsi Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 5/5 Seen at: Zee TV Munnabhai MBBS is a rarity in...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 27, 20041 min read
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Starring: Jack Nicholson Rating: 5/5 Rewatchability Index: 5/5 Seen at: VCD from Saurabh McMurphy is sent to a mental asylum for...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 20, 20041 min read
The Bourne Supremacy
Starring: Matt Damon Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 4/5 Seen at: Sangeet Jason Bourne is living the quiet life. He has retired to...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 20, 20041 min read
The Village
Starring: Adrien Brody, Joaquim Phoenix Directed by: Manoj Night Shyamalan Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 3/5 Seen at: Prasad’s...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 20, 20041 min read
The Insider
Starring: Al Pacino, Russel Crowe Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Inex: 5/5 Seen at: Borrowed VCD from Saurabh A true story based on the...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 2, 20041 min read
Phir Milenge
Starring: Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan Rating: 3/5 Rewatchability Index: 1/5 Seen at: Prasad’s Go read the storyline...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 2, 20041 min read
I, Robot
Starring: Will Smith Rating: 3/5 Rewatchability Index: 1/5 Seen at: Prasad’s Imax Will Smith plays a cop called into to investigate a...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 2, 20042 min read
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
Starring: Salman, Akshay Kumar, and Priyanka Chopra, Amrish Puri Rating: 1/5 Rewatchability Index: 0/5 Seen at: Prasads Salman is a...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 31, 20042 min read
Raksha Bandhan
Yesterday, 30/09/2004, was Raksha Bandhan. Without a doubt, it is one of the sweetest festivals on the Indian calendar. It is the day on...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Aug 31, 20043 min read
My Grandfather – A True Hero
Well, this has been a month of excitement for me. Starting with my aunt’s visit to Hyderabad to my uncle’s wedding in Mumbai and then my...
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