# travel — places i've been > 20 entries on [tetraslam.world/travel](https://tetraslam.world/travel) ### paris lived here from 2011 - 2014. visited again in 2023 for robocup internationals. things i love: - food & pastries - walkability, metro system - parks - free museums (if you're not an unc) - **Coordinates**: 48.8738, 2.2950 - **Dates**: 2011 --- ### london all i remember is rain - **Coordinates**: 51.5115, -0.1266 - **Dates**: 2012 --- ### barcelona very fun very happy place. favorite things: - tibidabo amusement park (i have a little red plane stuffed toy from here still) - cherries - sagrada familia - **Coordinates**: 41.3843, 2.1770 - **Dates**: 2013 --- ### bordeaux was here for robocup 2023 internationals :) very cool city - went to one really really good and fairly priced michelin star restaurant - bassins des lumières was terrific - my teammates (high school friends; including [prajwal](/friends)! and i ate a whole basque cheesecake everyday for breakfast because the hotel made INCREDIBLE ones - **Coordinates**: 44.8355, -0.5805 - **Dates**: 2023 --- ### munich i don't remember anything except the breakfasts being really good - **Coordinates**: 48.1375, 11.5750 --- ### athens santorini was way better but here's what i liked: - went for "dinner with the stars" (platform which gets raised on a massive tower and they server you dinner on it. while overlooking the parthenon at night) - parthenon (goated but a lot of construction/supports/restoration work as always) - gyros were really good - **Coordinates**: 37.9752, 23.7318 --- ### santorini probably top 3 places of all time - stayed at a bed and breakfast place run by a guy named george who made the best breakfast every morning (actual greek yoghurt, insanely good fruits, omelettes, milk/coffee, bacon) - our veranda overlooked the entire lagoon and the sea was the bluest blue i've ever seen (except for in split, croatia) - went to a bookstore where the shopkeeper first introduced me to the miss peregrine's home for peculiar children series (one of my all-time favorites) - probably the most beautiful (and slightly overrun) shopping district ever created - the most unique architectural style i've ever laid eyes on - **Coordinates**: 36.4732, 25.4074 --- ### split split is my favorite place i've ever gone on holiday to. - went swimming in the sea on a yacht - best nectarines i've ever tasted - we were there during the 2018 world cup where croatia was a runner-up!!! the energy was insane - visited and explored a ton of diocletian's palace, which is crazy cause i'm a percy jackson fan so seeing a place diocletian used to stay blew my mind - our local guide drove us at 200+ km/h cause croatian highways are insane lol - **Coordinates**: 43.5113, 16.4363 - **Dates**: 2018 --- ### stockholm fun city, awesome viking museums - **Coordinates**: 59.3355, 18.0659 --- ### bangalore where i lived most of my life :) my parents and maternal grandparents still live here - **Coordinates**: 12.9950, 77.7281 - **Dates**: 2014 — 2024 --- ### bangkok went when i was pretty young. i only remember it being over 45 degrees C and wanting to die from the heat - **Coordinates**: 13.7490, 100.5258 --- ### krabi/ao nang went with my high school class for our ib trip :D was just incessant amounts of fun - mangrove kayaking - cooking class (we were surprisingly good; i also brought back a bag of palm sugar that they gave us!) - taught kids at a nearby school - went swimming and diving in the ocean ofc - became very good friends with one of the teachers from the school who is partnered with our school so she bought us boba everyday in the evenings (we're still in touch!) - **Coordinates**: 8.0339, 98.8234 - **Dates**: 2023 --- ### singapore i've been here more times than i can count and i will continue visit just as often hehe - **Coordinates**: 1.2850, 103.8292 --- ### da nang very touristy place but it isn't crowded so it was a terrific amount of fun :) - **Coordinates**: 16.0680, 108.2203 --- ### ho chi minh city crazy good pho at the restaurant downstairs from our hotel, and all the monuments were really cool. also the prison museum was really interesting and i've been into vietnamese history ever since. also went on a cruise for three days and had tons of fun going squid-fishing and doing other cruiselike activities - **Coordinates**: 10.7779, 106.6994 --- ### leh, ladakh went glamping here. low oxygen first day so i slept the whole day but the rest of the trip was fabulous! - visited monasteries - ate great food at the main glamping tent - visited pangong lake (6 hours by car on a mountain "road"; worth it), which is on the border with china and was a filming site for 3 idiots!! - **Coordinates**: 34.1473, 77.5881 --- ### new york was here for 3 days upon arriving to the US for college :) - shitty hotels - incredible food that about sums up my experience - **Coordinates**: 40.7482, -73.9787 --- ### boston uni home! - **Coordinates**: 42.3464, -71.0838 --- ### san francisco the place i always wanted to be - **Coordinates**: 37.7845, -122.4142 --- ### san jose went here for an [ado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ado_(singer)) concert with my friend raymond haha - **Coordinates**: 37.3356, -121.9002 ---