ludhiana sandhu has a little bit of the world mounted their home s wall in country hardcore travellers the couple have collected over 200 decorative plates from little known villages and towns of countries across the world particularly from europe each plate has own interesting tale they say and is testimony to their six or seven years of extensive travelling harpreet a and author shared his story of how collection began my wife and i are passionate about travelling and we visit european countries like switzerland and england for my law research work and projects initially we bought plates only because they beautiful and we liked but gradually it became our hobby now we a fairly big collection said his aman said it began as a desire to something different she started eye out for plates collection has pretty pictures of old churches monuments destinations picturesque locales and portraits made on plates looking at them now refreshes memories of all the places we ve visited and the fun we have had she said however aman sandhu it not always easy a plate we had to a of hard work travelling to the interiors where indian tourists generally do nt go researching also unique in countryside and of we visited our friends and relatives settled in helped us finding the right kind of shops to get original added the sandhus said each plate them between 2500 to 3000 some of them are pieces of art are 20 they also have a collection rare bells from european countries word has gotten around about the sandhus hobby among friends our hobby is so famous that any of our friends go abroad or some relative comes visiting already know that decorative sure to make us happy so that what they try to get for us said harpreet