In Pune

Well, I made it back to Pune. I am here now with one other person from work. We left on Tuesday from Tampa, FL then flew to Newark, NJ. From there we took a non-stop, 14-hour flight to Delhi, India.

Side note about the flight to Delhi: Oh man...that flight can be brutal, especially when you need the leg room and you are not in first or business class. It also doesn't help when the guy in front of you puts his seat back for the entire flight...literally. In fact, he did not put it up until we were almost in Delhi and the flight attendant literally had to push the button for him to put it back. To make things worse, i started the flight in the aisle seat with only a guy sitting next to me in the Window seat; no one was in between us. I get up to use the bathroom, and some guy mysteriously appears in the middle seat. What am I supposed to do 30 minutes into the 14 hour flight? Tell the guy he can't sit there? That didn't seem right. So much for the little extra leg room. What a bummer. That guy stayed there for just about the entire flight. It turns out he moved up to be next to me to make room so his family could get some sleep on the flight. OK, so I suppose he was somewhat justified.

We arrived in Delhi around 8PM, which was much better than the 11+PM we got there last time around. We spent the night at the ITC Hotel Maurya Sheraton, which turns out to be one of the best hotels in Delhi, which I would hope given the price we had to pay for it. We had a good Kingfisher and kebab dinner then slept for a few hours until we had to get up to catch the 8AM plane from Delhi to Pune.

We arrived in Pune without much hassle, went to the hotel to unload our bags and have lunch before heading into work for the day. The hotel, Le Meridien, is pretty nice; at least a step above the the last hotel we stayed at here. The restaurants here are especially good. It turns out we just missed a big festival all about Ganesh here in Pune by one day. Read about it here.

So, there has not been much so report since then (hence the delayed post) especially since we generally have been working late and I have been pretty jet lagged. I do have a few pictures that I will post later.


It's Saturday evening now and we plan to go for the "Chinese/Thai" restaurant they have here for dinner. Tomorrow, we plan to take a little tour of Pune. I will hopefully have some more pictures from that.

Cheers!

Harry