Day 1: Gurgaon, India–Just arrived

Yesterday we arrived in Gurgaon, India. It is one of the new tech-suburbs of Delhi and I am here on behalf on the company I work for.

The trip here was uneventful. Austrian Airlines over Vienna. MY first time using Austrian. It wasn’t that great, but at least there was plenty of space on the plane and that is fine.

A driver picked us up in the airport and drove us to the apartment that we own (not me personally). It is huge! We were tired and jet lagged and went to bed. Around 8 o’clock the maid arrived and we had to get up in order to let her in. There is so much electronics for handling that, that it got a bit confused. Back to bed and when we woke up she had gone. It is all a bit hazy.

At noon the driver came back to drive us to a mall. Just to get out a little. I think we were mostly doing this out of a sense of duty to get out and see something. True sightseeing will probably have to wait for next weekend. Anyways. The mall was noisy and not very interesting. Best part of it was having tea in the food court (such as it was) and an excellent dinner in an Indian restaurant.

The drive back to the apartment was more exiting: it rained hard and it was more like sailing a boat than driving a car.

Along the road you see more poverty than I can really stand and I am trying put it off my mind before going to the office tomorrow. As a co-worker said before I left: “big city poverty seems worse than country side poverty”. That is so true.