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Swipe 🏞 Here’s a little recco for Darjeeling.

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Here’s a little recco for Darjeeling. The town is small & picturesque. Most of the town life is situated in n around Mall Road, so try staying somewhere closeby. Most of the shops, eateries etc are situated around Mall Road & Chowrasta.
Things to do include a sightseeing tour including 7/8 points around Darjeeling ; we did not do this one. .
What not to miss: The sunrise at Tiger Hill is breathtakingly mesmerising. You can hire a local car or taxi to go to the hilltop. The temperatures are really low there so please go fully prepared. Cover your head, face & legs properly as it can be extremely chilly up there.
Where to eat: Glenary’s bakery is an iconic establishment in Darjeeling. This old charming bakery is always full n bustling. Frankly the fare served was nothing extraordinary at all, but it is an experience sitting outside in the balcony sipping Darjeeling tea with the Kanchenjunga in the background.
Margarate’s Deck is a beautiful cafe with views of the valley all around. You can cover this on your way in or out as it’s at Kurseong.
Park restaurant at Chowrasta is a good place to eat, the food is good & is very reasonably priced.
Things to buy: This one is a no brainer, get some Darjeeling tea. The tea produced in Darjeeling is only leaf tea. You will get several shops around town selling these & the stuff is good. These make for great gifts too. There are several antique & crafts shops around but be careful as there is no assurance for prices or quality. You will find a lot of woollen wear but it is all of a very normal quality & I would not suggest buying anything unless you have gone unprepared & need clothes to brave the cold.
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The toy train from New Jalpaiguri takes the whole day so it’s better to take one of the smaller 2 hour Joy rides.
The town is safe & you can walk around on foot but note that everything closes early here as early as 7/8:00 PM. So don’t stay out late & if need be party at your own hotel. It is a quaint little town with cobbled streets, picket fences & a fountain square, all straight out of a picture book. Go there to relax your mind🤗

Swipe 🏞 Our 1st vacation without baby A. Being

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Our 1st vacation without baby A. Being a nuclear family with both parents working & close family staying in different cities. We rarely get the chance to spend time together; time which can be totally focused on only each other.
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Baby A is an easy happy kid who is very understanding. Frankly I have it easy as a mommy with him, more so with tall A being a totally hands on dad. But everything said & done, your child is always gonna be the centre of your universe. Even if he/ she is easy to parent, truth is parenting is a tough call. It’s a 24/7 job with no breaks at all. Sometimes it does become too overwhelming. It is taxing & tiring too. You can’t really let go or just spend a day being totally lazy. You can’t do things like staying in bed or binge watching TV whole day, coz there is a small person who needs you to be a parent. Moreover Baby A is very active, friendly, busy and he hates sleeping. So all in all, we were craving for a break from a long time & started thinking about it this year as he was turning 4. He is capable of doing everything on his own with supervision, can express his needs & wishes very well, (infact if you watch my stories you would know , he can express it a little too well for my sanity 😝😂). So we booked a teeny tiny break to Darjeeling this year & planned to leave him with my parents.
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As life would have it, this break which was planned quite a long time back, could not have been at a more opportune time. Both me & Tall A have been in a very negative place lately & this break was more than welcome this time. I had been unable to come out of my my own headspace this past month of December & more than me it was Tall A who needs some space & time. Life throws you curveballs & sometimes they are nasty as hell. All I can do at this time is stand by my man & hope he is able to come out of this difficult time soon. And I am thankful that we did catch this 4 day break in between, which was carefree, happy & a much needed one. As far as baby A is concerned how did he take it? Will share that later 😃 #ohheymama #joyfulmamas #couplegoals #familylove #mytinytribe #inlove
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Some times the best of plans are the simplest ones

Some times the best of plans are the simplest ones. Specially when it’s so different from your ordinary day. And that’s what our NYE and New Year looked like. No rules, no plans, not a care in the world. An evening spent sipping hot chocolate and tea with the view of the majestic Kanchenjunga in the background.
New Year’s eve was a beautiful candlelight dinner followed by a live band, to whose tunes we danced merrily while ringing in the New Year 💃 🕺 🥂. Tall A and me danced into the wee hours & then went to see the most beautiful sunrise at Tiger hills.
We spent the first morning of the year watching the breathtaking sunrise at #tigerhills under freezing temperatures. Came back and went to sleep at 9:00 AM in the morning! Coz cold, hangover and no sleep🤷🏻‍♀️. For the first time in my adult life, I went to sleep in the morning without a care in the world.
Woke up and went out and had an icecream for lunch. Now I do need to mention that the icecream was of a company called Super Soft!!! I have no clue where it’s from. And for someone who doesn’t ever eat anything named Frozen desserts; I didn’t even check the label to read the ingredients this time 😝. Oh yes I know I am pretty irritatingly high-maintenance 😝. I have no clue why Tall A suffers me gladly; methinks he is too lazy to object or bother otherwise 😜.
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Anyway post an icecream lunch we further stuffed our faces some more and then went to watch a movie in the middle of the day. We paid 300/- Rs ONLY for 2 tickets 😲. 300/-? How is that possible? and Oh yes, we also stuffed our faces with cheese popcorn, the whole tub to ourselves 😂. So that want our NY eve and first day looked like; carefree and fun. If only the whole year be as simple as this day 🙂.
Anyway here’s to hoping 🥂 and We are back to the grind staring today ready to face the new year with renewed energy and smiles 🤗 lets do this one better guys HNY. .
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