An Evening in Paris !!!
Having a look at this title donot think this is something to do with the old Shammi kapoor mvi. Even i dint watch it ;).
It has been two years and my blog is the least posted one among my friends i guess. The major excuse i had was there is nothing "happening" in my life to pen down. Now i have it, a month long trip to Paris :-> (thou official i had time to visit the city ;-) ).
So lemme begin with my journey to Paris. I got to know just a week before i had to go and yeah all those regular procedures visa forex n all. I wasnt that excited that i will be leaving the country first time and ll be an NRI for a month. Friends dropped me at the airport a long queue for check-in n "voila!!" i am in the flight now. It seemed to be a short flight as i was asleep most of the time ;)). Now after some sleep i try to peep thru my window the world outside. Thick fluffy clouds and we are floating on them and golden rays of sun beaming in from the far end. I thought am i dead and am i in heaven !! (for an instance i was excited.woow i am in heaven!! I always think Devils are waiting for me on the other end). It was so beautiful n i was kicking myself everytime i have a look out for not having got my cell which has a cam and thou i have a cam due to security reasons it had no life (cells).
Then i just looked onto the GPS in the plane i was flying on ZURICH. I craned my neck just to get any glimpse of the Swiss ... alas the plane was too high tat everything looked the same. Then in an hour here i am PARIS, the city of love. Weather was dull that day cloud cover and bit of chillness in the air. I completed my formalities and searched for a taxi. I had a good option of taxis Merc, Peugeot, Limo all waiting for me to get in. Everything fitted with the GPS recievers,i was always fancied abt. I got into a Peugeot . Speeding through the empty freeways on a not so exciting sunday i reached the hotel. Yeah i forgot to mention the taxi was speeding at a minimum of 80kmph and a max of 150 kmph :->. I wish i had been on the drivers seat. :-(
I reached the hotel at around 10am. But my room wasnt ready so was chatting with my collegue who came there a week before. After an hour or so, a "tring tring" and my room was ready formalities done and with my lugguage went to my room which is on the 14th floor .. (there was no 13th as expected ;-) ). That day just had some rest and evening a walk near the hotel to get to know the place. I felt very good to see no commotion around, no sunday crowd (who can forget Forums n Garuda Malls on weeknds!! ), and places very neat as if they clean every one hour. And yeah not to mention i was able to see the Eiffel tower on the walk thou from 6kms around but still it holds it head high.
The next day the main purpose of my visit OFFICE. Had an introduction to people arnd. They tried to talk in the best english they know and yeah initially a bit of confusion and then u get addicted to their english. But i should say people are pretty friendly atleast the people whom i have met with. Then nothing much "happening" in those weekdays except for 15th of aug which was a holiday even here as it was "Day of Assumption". I dint stratch my head as every holiday is welcome ,reasons not important :-).
So August the 15th i was out on the streets of Paris for site-seeing with my collegue. She has visited Paris a lot of times so guided me to all the places arnd. We went to buy calling cards in a Pondicherry settlement here where we get some cheap calling n having a not so tasty dosa we moved on. Next destination the Opera house.No shows going around at that time as i got a bit tempted to watch one. We went to Arc de Triuomphe which is to commemorate the French victory. N i should say its pretty huge. Some pics there and then we went to the Champs-Elysses one of the worlds famous n costliest shopping street. Just barged in a few showrooms (Merc n Peugeot)n chked out the new models there. I was excited on seeing the city and thought this is just the beginning. A lot more excitement in store for the 3 weeknds i am here.
I guess this is enuf for you to YAWN a bit. I will write all my weeknds each as a separate post so that you are not bored. Lemme admit it i cant sit and write the whole thing at one go. :P
TO BE CONTINUED ...
Having a look at this title donot think this is something to do with the old Shammi kapoor mvi. Even i dint watch it ;).
It has been two years and my blog is the least posted one among my friends i guess. The major excuse i had was there is nothing "happening" in my life to pen down. Now i have it, a month long trip to Paris :-> (thou official i had time to visit the city ;-) ).
So lemme begin with my journey to Paris. I got to know just a week before i had to go and yeah all those regular procedures visa forex n all. I wasnt that excited that i will be leaving the country first time and ll be an NRI for a month. Friends dropped me at the airport a long queue for check-in n "voila!!" i am in the flight now. It seemed to be a short flight as i was asleep most of the time ;)). Now after some sleep i try to peep thru my window the world outside. Thick fluffy clouds and we are floating on them and golden rays of sun beaming in from the far end. I thought am i dead and am i in heaven !! (for an instance i was excited.woow i am in heaven!! I always think Devils are waiting for me on the other end). It was so beautiful n i was kicking myself everytime i have a look out for not having got my cell which has a cam and thou i have a cam due to security reasons it had no life (cells).
Then i just looked onto the GPS in the plane i was flying on ZURICH. I craned my neck just to get any glimpse of the Swiss ... alas the plane was too high tat everything looked the same. Then in an hour here i am PARIS, the city of love. Weather was dull that day cloud cover and bit of chillness in the air. I completed my formalities and searched for a taxi. I had a good option of taxis Merc, Peugeot, Limo all waiting for me to get in. Everything fitted with the GPS recievers,i was always fancied abt. I got into a Peugeot . Speeding through the empty freeways on a not so exciting sunday i reached the hotel. Yeah i forgot to mention the taxi was speeding at a minimum of 80kmph and a max of 150 kmph :->. I wish i had been on the drivers seat. :-(
I reached the hotel at around 10am. But my room wasnt ready so was chatting with my collegue who came there a week before. After an hour or so, a "tring tring" and my room was ready formalities done and with my lugguage went to my room which is on the 14th floor .. (there was no 13th as expected ;-) ). That day just had some rest and evening a walk near the hotel to get to know the place. I felt very good to see no commotion around, no sunday crowd (who can forget Forums n Garuda Malls on weeknds!! ), and places very neat as if they clean every one hour. And yeah not to mention i was able to see the Eiffel tower on the walk thou from 6kms around but still it holds it head high.
The next day the main purpose of my visit OFFICE. Had an introduction to people arnd. They tried to talk in the best english they know and yeah initially a bit of confusion and then u get addicted to their english. But i should say people are pretty friendly atleast the people whom i have met with. Then nothing much "happening" in those weekdays except for 15th of aug which was a holiday even here as it was "Day of Assumption". I dint stratch my head as every holiday is welcome ,reasons not important :-).
So August the 15th i was out on the streets of Paris for site-seeing with my collegue. She has visited Paris a lot of times so guided me to all the places arnd. We went to buy calling cards in a Pondicherry settlement here where we get some cheap calling n having a not so tasty dosa we moved on. Next destination the Opera house.No shows going around at that time as i got a bit tempted to watch one. We went to Arc de Triuomphe which is to commemorate the French victory. N i should say its pretty huge. Some pics there and then we went to the Champs-Elysses one of the worlds famous n costliest shopping street. Just barged in a few showrooms (Merc n Peugeot)n chked out the new models there. I was excited on seeing the city and thought this is just the beginning. A lot more excitement in store for the 3 weeknds i am here.
I guess this is enuf for you to YAWN a bit. I will write all my weeknds each as a separate post so that you are not bored. Lemme admit it i cant sit and write the whole thing at one go. :P
TO BE CONTINUED ...
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