Touring Chronicles-3

But before all this, I forgot to mention about the stupid advice from Raghu. Did I? He advised me not to bother about getting a good jacket as Spain would be not so cold. So being the fool I am I started out on the journey with a couple of thermals, a sweater and a jerkin. I felt the stark contrast once I landed on the german shores. Cold winds hit me upon my face and I started shivering. It was like in an old refrigerator ad I had seen. I don’t know how many of you would be familiar with that. A set of artificial teeth put aside start I don’t know the right word…so will use the word shiver again…I know it is not the right word and would be grateful if somebody of you let me know…every time the door to the refrigerator is opened.

And after that went to the office straight from the airport. Met a lot of colleagues, I knew back in India and a lot of colleagues, I only know from the communication over phone and mails. As it was the first day and I was not supposed to work from Stuttgart, my PC was not configured in Stuttgart. To tell the truth it is still not configured to date. So, had no work except for the time, I worked on Ruchit’s lappie. It was a day after the system copy. So, I did a couple of post system copy activities on Ruchit’s lappie. Had no chance to check my mails. Why mention checking mails here. Is it so important? You will learn shortly.

Was not at all feeling hungry. But managed to have a bite of something called croceone or something like that. Should ask Ruchit to spell it next time around. The flight to Madrid was in the evening at 4:45 and we started of to the airport at around 3:45. Said bye to a couple of people. Before all this, KC called me to his chamber and gave me a few words of wisdom and instructed me on how to behave and how to draft mails and how to be careful etc. That was pretty informative and as people say, I came of my age that day(wink).

We started out( Me, Ruchit and Kesari) on our Journey to the airport and Madrid subsequently. Kesari anna was there in Madrid to attend some meeting with the client on workflows. We landed and parted ways as Kesari was staying in a different hotel. Checked in and got ready in sometime and called up Kesari anna and decided to meet at Diversia in Alcobendas. Went there and had food at an Italian restaurant. But my tryst with cold started again. So it was decided to get me a brand new thermal wear the next day.

Went to the office on Wednesday after roaming around for almost 45 minutes. Roaming, but why? The story is in here. We came down to the reception and asked her to arrange a cab for the location whose address we showed her. After seeing that she told us that the place is quite near by and we could walk. She even pulled out a map for us and gave a photo copy for our assistance. So, following the map, we asusual pursued a wrong path and started roaming around before we asked somebody for the directions. He helped us out to the correct street but unfortunately, we roamed around in the street for almost half an hour before we found the correct building. Now comes the funniest part. We found the building but not an entrance. So spent almost 10 minutes in finding the path before somebody had a chance to help us out.