Thursday, June 30, 2005

Rhine and the Wasserfall

"When God was looking for a place to set up a paradise, the sunny slopes between the Taunus mountains and the Rhine nearly won the prize".. The frommer's description of Rheingau started as this and I just couldn't resist to check out this place. And indeed this place was such a paradise. The calm Rhine flowing with infinite vineyards on one side and mountains and islands on the other side made that day! Enjoyed the entire journey with the sweet rhine wine!!
And then triberg waterfall being the highest waterfall in Germany was the best ever waterfall I've ever seen even in pictures.. seriously!!

So now next 4 days in France and this is gonna be the best eurotrip episode I think!

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Life as usual..

Three days .. no visits anywhere.. no parties.. nothing really special going on :(
some routine monotonous algo running for a few days...
wake up in the morning - ditch having a bath everyday saying that tomo will be better - hurry the breakfast with something simplest to eat.. chocolates! - go and then a little lukkha - then more lukkha - come back for lunch - then try hard on the problem only to find that the earlier way cannot work and try for a new way .. - prof may come.. then just tell a few little efforts you made and he seems happy.. have a little chat.. - then 5.30 and Yo.. timeup, nobody is there in the group - roam around somewhere like a floating cloud.. on the koenig street?, then come back and make dinner along with all the iit guys here.. ditch muggin the wordlist saying that there is still enuf time.. then at nightwalk and sort of back to the room only to eat something more and off to sleep!
Well now.. tomo having a party in our group!.. donno for what.. where..
anyway.. read few of the William Wordsworth poems, they are just to make you happy :)

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Enjoy.. Enjoy.. Enjoy..

If you need to learn any big thing in life and change the way to live... then learn this damn important thing from europeans.. "Learn to Enjoy!" .. Just learn to enjoy!
Now tonight visited the Sommerfest of the Stuttgart University and saw so many guys and chicks just chilling out their life and having an ammazing fun!! Sounds normal that college ppl coming together and having fun.. but this one was too much.. cant descibe in words.. Just screwed the shit out of me..

Just let everything take care of itself, and enjoy life... Enjoy Life!

Oh God.. my most sincere request!.. pour into me a little of this european stuff ..

Eurotrip: Episode 2.

Spent a lot of time on friday night searching for the places in Benelux. Even though I had to catch the very early morning train, I slept at around 1'o clock. Woke up at 5.00.. was feeling damn sleepy but the excitement for freaking out was more!
Just managed to catch the S-bahn in time and got the ICE to Koln. Now an interesting experience in the train. I knew that Koln is the center for gays and lesbians and that got I got to see in the train to Koln itself!! two lesbians sitting on the side, hands in hands, touching each other where-ever infinitely often, and all.. shit!! I had no reason to move somewhere but just keep sitting there watching the live show! Height was they went to WC together... what kinda lesbian love man!! too much is their defence mechanism and weird fundaes..
Then had a little time at Koln to see the beutiful cathedral and river. Then caught the IC to brussels and chinmay was waiting there till my train arrived brussels-midi at 11.32.
Then as usual got the city map and started to see brussels.. One thing - people knew english nicely here.. had no problem with language. The best buildings in brussels was a nice sight. Palaces were awesome. For the first time saw a city with a perfect medieval touch.
Now we went to Brugge just becos frommers.com said that it was a good attraction but in public opinion it was highly underrated. And man! this city turned out to be a jackpot! To desribe the city in the simplest word - "The entire city was a show piece". Just anything made of chocolates, every shop with best of exotic things, river through the city, nice garden with swans in the pond, bridges, cute small buildings, and taste of medieval stuff. This is the best city I have seen so far! Seriously whosoever goes to belgium, just dont miss brugge.
Then went to antwerp and this turned out to be a mavali city. Red light area, negros, and signs of place being like amsterdam! But the port was nice and had a great time there.
Then returned back to Brussels and enjoyed the night life. It was awesome. past midnight and the city was alive and kicking. One crazy thing we found everywhere was people crowded in front of ice-cream shops in that chilling weather! Indeed fools.. but after checking this everywhere we too had ice-creams and one scoop (equivalent to 3 indian scoops) was just more than enough... Man! people just enjoy the night here..
Then came the painful part.. niteout at the brussels-midi station. But it wasn't that much of pain as we found 2 american girls and 2 guys and kept chatting for a lot of time. Over so many layers of clothing too the chill was unbearable... and weird part was we just didn't have any 1 or 2 euro change to get beer or wine to beat the chill :((.. the warmest place we found was the telephone booth.. some 1 degree warmer in which somehow uncomfortably I could sleep but not more than 30 mins..
So all the night stayed up and in the morning one shady fellow came to offer me hashish!... just didn't see at him and continued our sight-seeing of brussels. This place holds a great importance for european union. The headquarters, court of justice and so many important places here.. really Brussels rocks!
Then went to luxembourg for sleeping in the train for 3 hrs and pushing ahead in the trip. Now Luxembourg was just like a french city and chinmay put it as it was just like Monaco.. beautiful city with valleys, historical part below, the modern town on the above, dwellings of richest europeans, and overall a sexy city! Just roamed around and bid farewell to Belgium and Luxembourg.
So that was simply a memorable trip!

Thursday, June 09, 2005

I ate a raw fish!

Yes.. today I found an interesting burger with a nice looking fish inside. Just couldn't guess that the fish may be raw!! Now in this Deutschland I have eaten everything and infact I like it more now. Pork, beef, rabbit, any bird, as long as it tastes good I dont mind eating it.
So now I am totally into non-veg and I have full freedom to eat anything which these people eat :D, atleast till I come back home...

Monday, June 06, 2005

Eurotrip: episode 1.

Was pretty excited about going to vienna and salzburg. So in the late hour of nite at 00:00 felt quite fresh enough. It was a german train, so obviously started verry much on time. in the coup had an old couple sitting ahead and a decent babe on the side. Seeing not much opportunity to interact just felt asleep after putting the bag on the top. And then! Wow!! some station came in the early morning at 4:30 types and found myself with 3 babes in the coup!!! one sleeping ahead and two on the side. But all sleeping :( So me too slept again and woke up just like an hour before vienna came. Had a little chat with the nice babes, but was a big fight for them to understand english :(
Then in Vienna, Anosh came on time. Really Anosh made the best stay in Vienna possible! With a little breakfast went to tour the historical city. It was a nice and new experience for me. Felt great seeing all the palaces! The BEST thing is Vienna is their Opera show and you can find people wearing some majestic kind of dress all throughout the historical part of the city trying to sell the tickets for the show. But so costly something like 60 euros and the cheapest was some 26 euros. Was thinking whether to get it or not.. but then a little search showed that "Stehplatz" which is the standing place costed only 5 euros!! Without thinking a bit, just ran and got the tickets. So there was the very best time to come at 8'o clock at night.
In almost every european city, on weekends the main city is the best attraction, with all lukkha european people coming and having fun, dancing, watching streetplays, having ice-cream. In short Enjoying! I too had the same and enjoyed a lot! and in Vienna it was really special.
Then had some 5 hrs to spend before the opera show. So went to danube, a nice river in Vienna and then to a cute and small city, Baden just near Vienna.
So now was the thing which has turned out to be the best ever thing I have seen! The opera show was in the museum of natural history which is a big palace like building in the heart of the historical city. Velvet walls, big paintings, majestic art just everywhere. And then came the group who was to perform and for 2 hours I felt like in Heaven! Anyone who goes to Vienna just cannot miss this show or just never miss this show anywhere you can find it! Violin, Ballet, Singing, an altogether awesome experience. The best masterpeice of european art indeed.
Then returned late at night, had dinner at McD and had much needed night sleep.
Next day caught the train to salzburg, again met a nice babe, cuty-cuty babe. Salzburg is the best attraction in the german-austrian alps and indeed felt awesome seeing the river, tombs of the church and palaces in the background of little snow-capped mountains. check out the pics at photos.yahoo.com/euro_internship and they will tell you everything. An awesome scenic beauty indeed! Met harsha there and had a nice time. For lunch had a sexy fish-burger in the place which seemed to be like a fish-fest!
Then went to a little place of a lake. A peaceful, serene lake, with again the little snow-capped mountains in the background. It was the best place to lukkha for 1 hr.
Then came to munich and watched that city for some one and half hour. I will have to go to munich sometime to see all the places there.. Just the look nearby the main station was cool, so the city must be awesome!
Then came back by the best ICE train.. What a train man! Max-comfortable and high-class.

So this was the first weekend episode of eurotrip! Lots of fun and gotta learn lots of things :D
Now thou shalt get back to work!

PS: I have a dream.. 5000 euros, 1 month holiday and 30 days eurail pass..