There's quite a funny story to tell about the client's meeting on Friday. On the way getting there, an Otto driver (Ottos are these little 3 wheel taxis) knocked on the window of our taxi, saying that we lack some air in the rear wheel. Thanks for information - never mind - keep on driving - but only for a couple of kilometers when the driver stopped - and we had a puncture!! There we were, in our formal cloths, sweating, stuck on the road. Already quite short of time, we had to take an Otto to the meeting. When my colleague got upset, I said that this is a nice story to tell and that she always has to look at it from a positive perspective, right?!

Well traffic in India... an issue for itself!
Cause after a wonderful welcome dinner with my company some 20 trainees were off for Vischiquesh, a village (you know, only 500,000 habitats) 250 km up north from Delhi. After 45km, which took us unbelievable 3 hours, one taxis engine broke and we were stuck on the road.
Some trainees were just fed up with the whole chaos and took the running taxi to get back. All the hardcore people did it the Indian way, took a crowded bus and made it somehow to the desired destination.

It was a wonderful place, in the middle of the woods. It wasn't a big surprise that there weren't enough tents for all of us - so we shared, as usual here, jejeje
Did some trekking to wonderful waterfalls and great refreshments.
In the evening we had a BBQ and Goton playing the guitar, which was great!



The rafting on Sunday was good fun. But defenitaly and unfortunately at the same not a raft 5. It was too dangerous they said, so out of the wanted 27km ride we could only do 11 with some 5 great rapids. But still, it was cool, especially the swimming in the Ghanges was such a well doing refreshment!
To give you an impression about this small village, I best put some pics:




Getting back to Delhi, an issue for itself - remember, traffic!!
It took us fkn, insane 8 hours for 250 km!!! Imagine, that's about 35 km/h the bus drives!!
The guys at the Tour de Suisse are faster!!

Roads here are the most terrible thing ever!
And the most annoying to me is that HORNING!
At the back of buses it even says: "Horn Please"
That's so stupid, they'd do it anyway, all the time. And of course, the louder the horn the better... GOSH, grrr, dono if I'll ever get used to that...


Besides most the things could be sorted out:
- have a room to stay now that I share with Javed, my new Indian brother
- have an own taxi driver - like my chauffeur, who brings me to work and home, jejeje
- my stomach felt a little strange for only one day, which is fair enough
and at my job we agreed that I don't work 12hours daily but rather 8. I reckon doing some 9 hours, since I really like what I'm doing, it's a great project.

Don't worry, I don't and won't go ape :-))

Link to all the pics