Switzerland: Another Day in Paradise It is another weekend, another trip. This completes the hat-trick of weekend trips ever since we landed in Prague. Our “Europe trilogy” for the summer of 2010 was completed with the best of them all, the dream destination for many – Switzerland. This one was not going to be a …
Amsterdam: Going Dutch We boarded the evening 5:15 PM Easyjet flight from Prague to Amsterdam on Friday. We landed at the legendary Schiphol airport at around 7 PM. We were immediately awestruck by the atmosphere and did not feel like leaving the place to head for the city. Once the feeling sank in, better sense …
It was an F1 weekend at Belgium and we are still in middle of a beautiful summer. We arrived from India for a long stint at Prague and were all charged up for some weekend travel across Europe. So what better option for the weekend than Brussels? Enjoy the F1 carnival at a legendary race …
Hungary: Hungaroring F1 and Budapest Finally it was one of the moments I have been looking forward to – July 24-25, the F1 weekend at the Hungaroring Budapest. As soon as my Shengen Visa got stamped, I had one eye on the calendar for this particular weekend. Budapest is just 7 hours from Prague by …
Over to work now – Raiffeisen Bank looked to quite prominent in the region. Last time I was in transit in Vienna airport, almost all the aerobridges out there endorsed the yellow R-Bank label. And over here within a radius of 100m from our hotel, I could spot that yellow board no less than five …
I know its embarrassingly late to post this when I am already 1.5 months into the trip so will get into summary mode and get this thing done.Boarded the Air France flight from Mumbai Airport on June 26th mid-night after a typically great drive from Pune through the monsoon-striken expressway. Finally Mumbai international airport rose …
The moment I travel outside India or to a place where there is no access to Indian TV channels, there are only a couple of options left. One is of course the internet but how much can one have of it? No one’s going to mail or scrap you every 15-20 minutes. The only other …
September 15, 2008 I remember the last time I returned from onsite three years back I had to wait for three years to go anywhere onsite again. This time it was not to be that long and the wait was a little over 3 months after which I was back in the flight to Moscow …
Moscow: UEFA Champions League Final 2008 If you give a choice of onsite destinations to any of our IT boys, none would probably have Moscow in their list. Even when I was about to embark on my much awaited onsite trip it was more of relief than celebrations and it hardly had anyone envious. However …
April 13, 2008 As the date shows it’s been quite a while since my last diary – three weeks to be precise. So to compensate for that this has to be a big one. Lots of events have taken place in that period, the most notable change being in the temperatures. It was still snowing …
March 22, 2008 Work has started in full swing in the bank. And the biggest challenge is to make the bank users enter all the BPD data into the system. One can imagine the plight of the users when we ourselves have to encounter n no. errors and server restarts while entering data into Finacle. …
March 15, 2008 The weekdays more or less went like a template with not much difference between a Wednesday and a Thursday other than a different variety of chicken for lunch.We cook dinner at home and the standard menu is rice, dal and mixed vegetables (we buy frozen veggies from the super market). I generally …
