First day on my trip to Bangalore, India has just about wrapped up. I spent the first day setting up for a training session I'm delivering over the next 2 weeks.
My first impressions this time around are quite a bit different then my first 2 trips here, which were both to Delhi (New Delhi). The roads here are much better, and the traffic has been quite a bit less, so the fright factor is a lot less. I've noticed that the power lines and phone lines are not quite so "tapped" into, and it seems cleaner.
I had breakfast at the hotel, and asked the waiter to show me what a "normal" Indian breakfast was like. It was quite tasty actually. I will get the names and pictures of the food I ate tomorrow, but one of them was a rice/vegetable/lentil mixture that was pretty good. It had a great flavor, very savory. The other thing I had a "dumpling" like that you dunk in a tomato based soup, and then put a sauce of choice on. Two of the 3 sauces were hot, the third was coconut based and still had a little bite to it, but was my favorite, made it just a slight bit sweet.
This evening I went to the cafeteria at the site I'm at, and had two vegetarian things...can't remember the name, and a smoothie from some fruit I've never heard of...I need to upgrade my memory so I can remember the names of this stuff.
So far my trip has been great - my flight from Denver to Frankfurt landed about an hour ahead of schedule which made my 1:25 minute layover 2 hours and 25 minutes, and it was nice not to have to hurry. AND my luggage made it! So I had all my stuff.
More on the India trip later.
The picture here is one I took as a video on the way into the office - it's an open air market.
Cool...Wish i had logged in earlier
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