o2:00 (Dubai Standard Time) The airline, Lufthansa is the worst in the world. It was delayed for an hour and they forgot to load some kind drinks trolley. Probably, the only brown guy on the flight and people were looking at me as if I'm hiding something or everything about me was uncool. Good thing was, I slept a bit during the flight and it was really uncomfortable. I ate a vegetarian sandwich (I know the world would not believe this but I did) because of the fear that it would not be Halal. When the old PIA type air hostess served breakfast I saw SAFA yoghurt which gave me hope that the food would be halal cause it got made in Dubai. I then ate the sausage as well. (It tasted like chicken but then "ab to kha liya")
07:15 (Franfurt Standard Time)
Reached Frankfurt. One needs an aircraft to fly from Gate C to Gate A. Walking was nothing less than a 5 mile marathon. It was a 1 hour flight from Frankfurt to Prague and it took off 45 minutes late. Interestingly, it landed in 45 minutes.
09:45 (Prague Standard Time)
Reached Prague. Took a cab and off to the hotel. The city is beautiful. Typical european architecture with roads going in all directions and some of them never tasted asphalt (which is just amazing). I waited for a while before the room was prepared and met some new people from the team. I was so happy that the lady at the reception was hitting on me until I saw a ring in her left hand finger (or was it right hand ???) and as always all my dreams of getting a foreing begum went down the toilet. She was nice to everyone (bloddy hell !!! I am such a desi )
12:00 (Prague Standard Time)
Went around Prague. The old town square, the astronomical clock were the main attractions today, not to mention women - not a very classy way to say it but a fact. It was really interesting to walk the streets of Prague with an Israeli and actually seeing a synagogue (from the outside only, as there was no time to go in). There was nothing different about the walk and it made me realize once again that only humanity unites us and everything beyond is a reason for giving birth to differences.
19:00
Trip to a brewery. Yeah I know, the binge drinker that I am brewery was the first place I wanted to go. I had 4 glasses of fanta (apple flavor). But I had fun. People from all over europe were together, drinking and having fun and I was part of it (not the drinking part, ofcourse!!!) After coming back to the hotel I found myself in the bar again. This time however, I was drinking something really interesting - iced tea, with a shot of peach and lemon.
00:00
Except for the time I slept in the airplane (which was hardly any) I was awake for almost 40 hours. I was dead to the world within seconds of going to bed. zzzzZZZZZZZZZZ
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Prague - Day 1
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Beautiful city Prague!!
If you want to remain within the confines of Prague, take the funicular from southern Mala Strana up into the Petrin hills & walk north along the ridge line to the Hrad & the Strahov monastery--there's at least one nice terrace restaurant on the way where you can get a cup of coffee. A cool option if it's hot & sticky in town.
Another option is to wander E of the Hrad through the parkland on the Holesovice side till you reach the red metronome dead north of Nove Mesto. The metronome ticks in front of the giant plinth that once held a monstrous statue of Stalin (so large it had to be dynamited to be removed in the mid-60s), which affords an unusual view down into Nove Mesto. The plinth itself is one of the largest flat open spaces in town & has been taken over by the rollerbladers & skateboarders--which strikes me as a peculiarly ironic fate for it.
Or--hell, just go have a few beers! ;)
what is it that you do that takes you to cool places ... I want a job like that ... I want a job where travel is a must ... i want your job :D
You can have it. But there is no writing involved so I guess you'd be bored.
BTW - your email does not work.
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