Namaste India 1
I’m in india for 18 days to visit my family. Its been over 2 years since I’ve been back to motherland ;)
I landed at Mumbai International Airport and could sense winds of change straight away. There’s major reconstruction going on at the airport, which i must say was badly needed. But, this was not all of it; the airport staff was friendly!!! There was nobody trying to annoy or hassle you, nobody was trying hard for some bribe, or my much loved scotch bottles. This was in stark contrast to my trip 2 years ago, when I was stuck at airport for over 2 hours surrounded by blood sucking bribe thirsty custom officials. This time I was out of the international airport in 30 mins.
Now I had to travel to Mumbai domestic terminal to meet up with my brother and sister-in-law and catch flight to New Delhi. Funny thing is there are 2 domestic terminals in mumbai; “New Domestic Terminal” and just a plain old “Domestic Terminal”. You must be wondering what funny about that, well, old domestic terminal is more modern than new domestic terminal :)
Meeting up with Ashu was good, he keeps putting on healthiness as usual. I must say he’s one healthy man. Five hours at airport was time well spent if you consider long hours of catch-up chit-chat and eating awesome breakfast buffet at 3am in airport lounge. I have to mention the breakfast; Aloo parantha, chole, utthapam, loads of fruits, lots of other things and a good cup of coffee. Good food trail has begun :)
Another couple of hours in fight and an hour’s road trip and we’re home @Rewari to find surprised mom ‘n dad who were not expecting us for another 3 days. All that transcontinental planning for a surprise worked like a charm. It good to be home! Now its all about Good times, Good Food ….. yes …. lots of Good Food.