RajIts just been two days since I landed at the Frankfurt Airport and I think I’m already used to the routine here. Things have been great so far. People had really scared me before coming here that its too hot and it was hot when I reached but it started raining on Sunday evening and the weather has been pleasant since then. I have not taken too many pictures yet either.
This is the first time I’m visiting a foreign country but what’s weird is that I don’t feel like I’m in a foreign place at all. I feel like I feel when I visit any Indian city for the first time. This in spite of the fact that Germans are all around me. Is that weird or normal? Whatever!
I have seen quite a few new things here though. Graffiti being one of them, pin drop silence on the streets being another and most surprising of all, cars stopping for the pedestrians to cross the road. Plus it was a li’l difficult to adjust to the fact that it gets dark only after 9:30 pm.
I know this isn’t a long post but I wrote it using a German keyboard which, I tell you, is not easy to use.
Hehe, hope you had a nice journey. Yeah it is weird that you are finding it like a Indian city. Did you hear the noise of Indian traffic? Didn’t you find it weird the ‘left hand traffic’, didn’t you look at the wrong side of the road before crossing ?
Well 9.30pm, up here in Finland, it does not get dark at all for all night. It will start getting dark in few days.
Cars stopping to let ppl cross the road, Man! i shud be there .. he he .. crossing road here has become a nightmare…Have fun with all the typing on German Keyboard
If you can cross a road in Mumbai you can do anything in this world.
Have a good time, Raj!
@greensatya: Ya, the flight was comfortable. U know most roads in Mannheim, where i’m staying, are one ways but I still need to look in all directions to check for trams before I cross the road.
It must have difficult in the beginnig for u to adjust to the lack of darkness, I guess.
abhinav: Ya, imagine that happening in Bangalore!
I’m actually more or less used to the keyboard now.
@vinaya hs: Ha ha, ya, thats true.
@shruthi: Thanks a lot!
Your first visit can always be adventurous and exciting…
Wait till fall and you can enjoy the wonders of beauty….
I had the same kind of experience in Frankfurt airport.May be because at the airport i could see only Indians every where,well most of them.
I thought I was in Mumbai airport.
So keep us update about your adventures over there.
Car stopping for pedestrian is the most interesting thing in all countires apart from India.In the U.S. too people crossing road are like King,unlike India ,you are always scared of getting killed while crossing road.
Hi! How funny to see this your page! I grew up in germany one hour from mannheim where you are obviously staying right now, and three years ago I spent one year in bangalore, your hometown (?)!! but I have to say when I came back from there and got out the plane in frankfurt airport I was quite a bit shocked, everything looked sooo clean (too clean!!), everything was sooo quiet, in the raiwaystation I thought it would be possible to hear a needle fall! So I’m really quite surprised you can’t feel any difference to any indian city!!
wow, have fun w/ your travels! I havent seen much of the world. I did go to Venezuela once. Thats my only out-of-USA experience i had… not counting Canada.
i never stopped to think about crossing the roads… LOL, its funny then i guess to think that when i was in Lancaster City i was so scared to cross the street…
//Plus it was a li’l difficult to adjust to the fact that it gets dark only after 9:30 pm.//
goodness. i really didnt know zat. :p
@priya: Is is both exciting and adventurous for me. And autumn is abt to begin in 2 weeks so I might be in luck.
Thanks for dropping by
@sharda: There were lots of Indians at the airport. I’m guessing bcos the flight from India just landed
Actually, there r lots of Indians everywhere in this region of Germany.
And I will keep u updated abt my “adventures”
@maria: Hey. I already mentioned the silence in the post and I did notice the cleanliness. Its hard to miss. I just didn’t find the place alien or foreign. Thats why I said it looked like an indian city I had never visited before
It is quite a coincidence that u’ve lived on both Bangalore n Mannheim and stumbled upon my blog somehow.
@becky: Thanks. Hmm, Venezuela is nice. Lots of pretty girls there, I think.
Ah, u shud visit India once. Crossing the roads here is the stuff nightmares are made of
@aaki: Yup, its true. And I hear they get light just for few hours during winters here as well.
so u are having a nice time there…. hmmmmm…. cool…
enjoy beta!!
now how is this german keyboard??? y dont u take the pic of that with ur digi cam????
HIIIIIIIIIIII
hows u ??
having tons of fun in germany i hope!!
dont forget ur promise to send me tons of chocolates..
when r u comin bak?
any chamnces of comin to delhi??
@preeti: Ya, Ii think I am enjoying to an extent. Taking the pic of the german keyboard is a nice idea. I think I’ll do it sometime.
@akanksha: I am perfectly fine. Yes, definitely having some fun.#
I won’t forget ur chocolates. So don’t worry. As of now, I have to go back on 26th August. Tickets to Blr are already booked so no chances of going to delhi right now
yippppeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! so the chocolates meant for akanksha are divreted towards meeeeeeeee!!!!!! heheh i know ak… m selfish when it comes to chocos n icecreams.. :-p
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graffitishop
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streetwear
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Raj: I was in Berlin in August and had to use the key board for something. I definitely had a hard time. In Berlin they have a separate lane for bicycles. Is it the same in Frakfurt?