Ah, the joys of travel!
The trip started off well - I not only had a car service show up on time, I had two car services show up within ten minutes of each other. Nothing like a brawl over a $125 fare!
The actual travel time to India is about 24 hours. Hour to the airport, two hours to check-in, eight hour flight to Frankfurt, another four hour layover, eight hours to Hyderabad, an hour to get your luggage, and then five minutes to the hotel. Makes for a long day.
For the record, I'm staying in Hyderabad - a large city located in south central India. It's the home to many U.S. and Indian high tech and professional services firms. It has all the amenities of home - insane traffic, erratic drivers, a Pizza Hut, an Irish pub, and a Baskin-Robbins. We don't even have one of those in DC yet! Hotel is quite nice - the Indians have the service thing down.
Keep visiting for my updates. I'm here for six weeks and will hopefully have some fun stories and side trips to share. As always, you can reach me on e-mail.
7 comments:
This is so exciting! I can't wait to read more about Irish Sean's Indian Adventures. It would make a great, un-p.c. kid's book, for sure!
Irish Pub, Baskin Robbins?! Wowww, after 24 hours visiting the whole world in a airplane, are you sure you are in India?! Hahahha!
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By the way, 100ยบ F today. I can bet you are having a better time there ;)
Try a "frankie" while you are in India. The frankie is an Indian street-type food made of a thin bread similar to a tortilla that is coated with egg and fried. The tortilla is filled with meat and/or vegetables, then rolled like a burrito. I work with a bunch of Indian techies and they rave about "frankies".
I may be blonde, but you seem a little unclear on the outsourcing concept...the train moves not the station.
Normally I would say "be safe" but sounds like you are in better shape with ice cream and beer than you would be here without a roof over your head.
Ah Hyderbad self proclaimed GENOME capital of India.
I actually liked Hyderbad, it's got a temperate climate, it's somewhat clean and the people are friendly. My finance liked Hyderbad because it's the jewerly capital of India, if you want pearls or gold, you can get it there.
I stayed at the Taj in Banjara Hills, it was awesome. I went to work out one morning and they had a towel attendant in the workout room.
Enjoy the daily power blackouts
Oh - there's a Baskin and Robbins - right next to Montmartre - how can you not know that? YOU LOVE THAT FRENCH PLACE. :)
That's a Ben & Jerrys - no comparison.
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