Scene 1:
"You can have a thick slab of beef with sauce, or ham sausages, fried in oil, or fresh cut raw meat salad, or just forget about eating"
I raised my eyebrows, "er... vegetarisch?" ('vegetarian' in German)
"Very well, I can give you a pair of sandwich bread slices with two cabbage leaves inside"
"Awesome! Make it three!" (To myself... "finally some food after 3 days!")
Scene 2:
"You can have an assortment of things to drink - beer, vodka, rum, whiskey, gin or any mix of these!!"
I raised my eyebrows, "er... wasser?" ('water' in German)
"I can give you a peg of aerated water! We don't serve plain water!"
"Ah! Okay. Make it two glasses!"
Scene 3:
"You can have many ways of dealing with your experience... chit chat about it here and there, possibly write a few blogs, and yeah, just forget it after that"
I raised my eyebrows, "er... bessere Methode?" ('better method' in German)
"I can suggest you to write a book"
"Ah! Right!"
A once-in-a-lifetime experience, my four month stay in Europe between August and December 2008 saw my feet trudging through 40,000 kilometers of a cocktail of good, bad, beautiful and ugly experiences. And the 'Book of 40,000 kms' is going to talk about exactly this!
My sincere gratitude to the following folks who were a part of this story (for a change, I would write the names in reverse alphabetical order):
Vivek Jain (MDI Gurgaon)
Rajiv (IIM Ahmedabad)
Rajesh Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad)
Deepti I P (IIM Bangalore)
Balaji S (IIM Bangalore)
Balaji S Iyer (IIM Ahmedabad)
Avni Mehta (MDI Gurgaon)
Ashis Kumar (IIM Calcutta)
Ankit Kansal (IIM Lucknow)
Anand Gautam (IIM Bangalore)
I will keep posting updates on the book as the writing work progresses.
Cheers!
