Time swept past fast and in 2 days I would be 4 months old in Swiss land. The experience here so far had been crazy and I am still trying to delve into the foreign culture and the lifestyle.
All this time I tried my hands at new cuisines and desserts. To name the successful ones were "Chocolate chips butter cookies" and "pista kulfi". My culinary experiments late in the night, when my dear roomie craved for a spongy rasgulla, resulted in a tiny white balls, which hardly justified the name "Spongy".
The retreating summers were a treat and to make the most of Europe summers, we made sure that every weekend was planned and came by "The tennis evening", Barbeque , Accenture party and the trip to Rhine falls.
Then came a weekend of the Philip military operation- "The Berlin Trip". Yes, Germany was the destination.
The journey started with the easy jet (the cheapest we could afford) flight and meeting a supercute and a notorious steward Mike. It was supposedy his second day as part of the crew.
Would you like to have something ma'am. While me and Jyoti tried to go through the menu and decide, "you are ignoring me" he said. After we decided to order a brownie and a coffee, came another question, Which sugar do you want. "Any", said Jyoti. He gave sachets of almost all kinds of sugar packets he had on the shelf.
We reached Philip's place in no time. That was the most beautiful house i had seen in my lifetime. No less than a palace. the doors opened to high stairs with a red carpet and paintings engraved on either sides. the house had high ceilings and was beautifully decorated with all antiques and cool stuff.
We had special welcome drinks from Peter, Philip's replica and his younger brother, and then we headed to the theme pub and later to the techno festival.
We were all hungry and pounced on the lip smacking "Doner Kebab" at the best Kebab place of Berlin. We relished it so much that for the next 10 days Jyoti was looking for a Doner kebab in Zurich.
Then came the most interesting part for the girls, the shopping spree. Spent hours to grabbed some Berlin souveniers. We then crossed the street with the famous "Buddy bears" and spent some time to spot one from India and Switzerland( associated with two countries now :) ).
Later in the evening, we were supposed to go on a pub crawl but could not join one because we were not on the German time and had missed it. So Philip decided to meet his best friend in one of the pubs of east berlin which took ages to reach and miles of walk. We enjoyed our time there as we found a good indian restaurant right opposite to the pub and had watered-mouth when we saw bhatura being served. At midnight we did some favour to our belly and had paneer pakoras and bhatura chola. Yuuummmm...
Following day was the day to add to my knowledge about Hitler and the Berlin wall explained by a gung-ho guide of New Europe tour. Each and every event and place was miticulously explained by him and the crowd hooked on to him from soup to nuts of the 3 hour tour albeit it rained hard. So it goes without mentioning that he was too good.
"Calcutta" was the venue for dinner where we satiated ourselves with the Indian delectables alongside throwing some light on the Indian mythology and Lord Krishna, later addressed as cool dude by one of my friends after having heard all his stories.
We had a wonderful weekend, evident from the sleepy faces in the office on the following day. Unpacking for me and Jyoti was not necessary as in three days we had to again leave for the financial capital of Germany, Munich.
All this time I tried my hands at new cuisines and desserts. To name the successful ones were "Chocolate chips butter cookies" and "pista kulfi". My culinary experiments late in the night, when my dear roomie craved for a spongy rasgulla, resulted in a tiny white balls, which hardly justified the name "Spongy".The retreating summers were a treat and to make the most of Europe summers, we made sure that every weekend was planned and came by "The tennis evening", Barbeque , Accenture party and the trip to Rhine falls.
Then came a weekend of the Philip military operation- "The Berlin Trip". Yes, Germany was the destination.
The journey started with the easy jet (the cheapest we could afford) flight and meeting a supercute and a notorious steward Mike. It was supposedy his second day as part of the crew.
Would you like to have something ma'am. While me and Jyoti tried to go through the menu and decide, "you are ignoring me" he said. After we decided to order a brownie and a coffee, came another question, Which sugar do you want. "Any", said Jyoti. He gave sachets of almost all kinds of sugar packets he had on the shelf.
We reached Philip's place in no time. That was the most beautiful house i had seen in my lifetime. No less than a palace. the doors opened to high stairs with a red carpet and paintings engraved on either sides. the house had high ceilings and was beautifully decorated with all antiques and cool stuff.
We had special welcome drinks from Peter, Philip's replica and his younger brother, and then we headed to the theme pub and later to the techno festival.
We were all hungry and pounced on the lip smacking "Doner Kebab" at the best Kebab place of Berlin. We relished it so much that for the next 10 days Jyoti was looking for a Doner kebab in Zurich.
Then came the most interesting part for the girls, the shopping spree. Spent hours to grabbed some Berlin souveniers. We then crossed the street with the famous "Buddy bears" and spent some time to spot one from India and Switzerland( associated with two countries now :) ).Later in the evening, we were supposed to go on a pub crawl but could not join one because we were not on the German time and had missed it. So Philip decided to meet his best friend in one of the pubs of east berlin which took ages to reach and miles of walk. We enjoyed our time there as we found a good indian restaurant right opposite to the pub and had watered-mouth when we saw bhatura being served. At midnight we did some favour to our belly and had paneer pakoras and bhatura chola. Yuuummmm...
Following day was the day to add to my knowledge about Hitler and the Berlin wall explained by a gung-ho guide of New Europe tour. Each and every event and place was miticulously explained by him and the crowd hooked on to him from soup to nuts of the 3 hour tour albeit it rained hard. So it goes without mentioning that he was too good."Calcutta" was the venue for dinner where we satiated ourselves with the Indian delectables alongside throwing some light on the Indian mythology and Lord Krishna, later addressed as cool dude by one of my friends after having heard all his stories.
We had a wonderful weekend, evident from the sleepy faces in the office on the following day. Unpacking for me and Jyoti was not necessary as in three days we had to again leave for the financial capital of Germany, Munich.
