A week in Italy over Christmas — Mass at St. Peter's with the Pope on Christmas morning, the Colosseum at night with ChatGPT as a tour guide, Michelangelo's David and the Vasari Corridor in Florence, and Venice's canals, the Doge's Palace, and the campanile in the fog. The best leg of the whole European trip.

Three days in Barcelona — Gaudí's architectural theology at the Sagrada Família, Park Güell and the Gothic Quarter, discovering Catalan identity, getting scammed over a croissant at 1:30 AM, and an honest verdict on a city I expected to love more than I did.

Eight days in Berlin in December — half work trip, half slow discovery of a city that refuses to erase its own memory. Co-working until 9 PM, Christmas markets, the DDR Museum and the Holocaust Memorial, the East Side Gallery, and what German work culture taught me about actually logging off.

A same-day trip from New York to Niagara Falls in October: a 7:30 AM flight to Buffalo, the Maid of the Mist, the Cave of the Winds under a rainbow, a lot of autumn colour, and a late flight home.

My first work trip out of New York: four days in Los Angeles with my team in March 2025, an afternoon on the clean sands of Manhattan Beach, and a team dinner where I tried oysters and crab cakes for the first time.

A quick work trip to San Francisco in October 2024, in the middle of my first month in the US, for the E2B hackathon with two colleagues. I don't remember much of it, but my photos do: a rooftop over the bay, my first Waymo, Coit Tower, Pier 39 and a Twin Peaks sunset.

My first ever time in the US: a long flight from India, a night and a morning mentoring at HackMIT, and one Sunday walking around Boston before flying on to New York.