Hello friends...its been a long wait for me and all those who wanted to read more on this blog.
Well I have had mixed reactions over the first post on my blog...some wanted it to be more factual, while others could read between the lines.....but as they say...its the best which comes out fresh....so this time too I'll try to keep my word'y cousine to the best of my own taste with a little tadka for all.
So it goes so that in the first week of September I landed here in Germany for official work. We call it an Integration test for an Indian customer...our very own TATA STEEL. It had all started in utter haste...when I was finally spending a long awaited holiday with my parents, a holiday that was planned for a week and was eventually cut down to 3 days for all obvious official reasons. The day I returned back to Kolkata, (for those who do not know, I work there) expecting some time to prepare for this long journey, I was told that we would be flying the same day within the next 6 hours. Well I have always loved travelling and specially such last minute plans, but this was a bit too much, that too when you gotta pack bags, buy the essentials, meet a few friends and to the worst, even go to the office. Well, fighting to the last breath, I was told that due to a highly efficient workforce we could not get a direct Frankfurt flight and we would be flying via Turkey. That sound interesting, Turkey...Istanbul...wish I could get a transit VISA!!!! But there was a topping to our travelling pizza, Turkish Airlines flies from Delhi only, so we needed to fly to Delhi, ironically that was the same place I had flew from right in the morning of the same day. So I said to myself, dear debashish, just fasten your seat belt, coz u are gonna have a fun of a lifetime now. Well the travel tale has a nice twist, domestic airlines fly their last birds latest by 9:00 PM, we got the one that flew at 7, meaning we were at Delhi by 10 pm...interestingly, the flight to Istanbul was at 04:00 AM..a whole 6 hours of wait at Delhi Airport...thats long yaar..that too when you are a bit tired. Well the good thing was that Mr. Airtel provides free internet at the airport...the bad thing was, only for an hour...So we enjoyed the Delhi wait doing all that we could..exploring the new airport..for which I personally have all praise for making it look international in most senses.
To be truthful (and most adams and may be a few eves would agree), there is one thing which is always quite lovely at the airport..the lovely, all smiles, charming air-hostesses. They are like the silver lining on the cloud and being on the international side you realise and very proudly so, that we share the nationality with the most beautiful ones. The reds, the yellows and few in the rainbows...may be beauty has no words. We agree or not but once or always we have glanced at them with a hearty smile, I call it the Adam's gift of senses..
And so it went on and when I saw the watch it was finally the time of flight...welcome on board..Turk-Hava-Yolari..or in short Turkish Airlines. A simple yet hospitable flight with exquisite cousine....I was tired so couldnt wait to try sleeping..and sometimes was successful too....
...The captain speaks...we are about to land at Istanbul......Istanbul, the land of the Blue Mosque..wonderful capital surrounded with lots of water bodies. And I finally stepped into a foreign land...Turkey (unfortunately only the airport). We were three of us, and our travelling senses were compelling us to visit the grand city, but the unfortunate aspect of modern world, security, ...we are not allowed transit VISA, sometimes your color tone speaks more than it should. No grudges, we made it this way..but the airport was no less than a beautiful place and the wait for 3 hours got over seemingly a bit too early. The next flight was courtesy the same airlines, so we had already a pre-hand experience of what was on the offer. Flying through the sun we finally landed at Frankfurt, after almost about 20 hrs since I left my home in Kolkata....and friends...the journey isn't over yet...we had another hour and a half to travel by car to reach our destination.
Hilchenbach, a small town towards the north of Frankfurt...a land of forests and extreme natural beauty...was our destination. I often tell my colleagues..."yahan aakar saans lene ka mann karta hai";(feel like taking deep breaths in the openness of this land). I haven't had the luck of visiting many big cities of Germany, but hats off to the people who planned 397 kms of well laid forest walk routes inside the dense forests in Germany. Hilchenbach is one place on route those many kilometers, famous for forest explorations and trekking.
Its been more than a month here now and this place never ceases to amaze me with its beauty.
There have been some great additions in my gadget store here, and the greatest of all is a D-SLR camera, Nikon D-3000. Cost me a fortune, but it has given me an opportunity to capture the beauty of this paradise. But one thing I can say...and thank the creator of the best engineered camera, the human Eye for giving us this gift, what you can see and perceive can never be captured by any camera.
Friends, this blog is just a medium to pen down my thoughts and share some nice moments with all those who like to share the essence of life with me. Its never an aim to offend any one with words or satires. I would love to have your comments on this post and any free words from you, all that would improve the communication between two human souls.
Till the next post...enjoy reading and best of luck for all future endeavours.......
Debashish
