Thursday, May 14, 2009

Destiny- A great Role-player to "My trip to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland"

A few months back, I went on a grand trip to the land of the people who ruled us for more 100 years- Great Britain on an official duty. I am not going to tell what work I did over there. But will certainly tell you how much fun* an Indian can have if you are in England (you must be lucky and destined to meet the right people).

Now stop wondering why I wrote "My trip to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" in the title. This is my blog and I get to write whatever I feel so.

Sorry about the above paragraph. I know I can be pretty lame and arrogant at times.

So, I was sent to England on an official trip from my company. I travelled from Mumbai to Bristol via Amsterdam. The flight was good. I had the experience of travelling on a plane after 13 years. From the Bristol airport, I was driven to Exeter (South West of the England) by my contact person.

My contact person was a nice lady who was very polite and who actually broke all my misconceptions about English people. I made friends with some of the coolest English people including some from my office. They were warm and genuinely interested in knowing about our country.

I was made a part of the group with whom I regularly used to hang out with. We used to do binge drinking on a regular basis and have terrible a hangovers and headaches in the mornings. We used to go the night clubs and have a hell good time. To be precise, I visited almost 95 percent of the pubs and bars in Exeter (I decided not to visit some of the Gay Bars over there. Gays, No Offense).

I used to go out playing SQUASH in the University campus in Exeter and squash is one game which if thought I would never play in my life. I thoroughly used to enjoy each and every moment when I was in the court even though i was absolutely trashed by my friend in all the games we played. I also did play some game of crazy Golf.

I went out with some of my colleagues to do some Bowling and turned out to be a Natural in it. I scored a 149 in my first Bowling stint which made the English think i was gifted. The actual reason being they were drunk and i was not (Thanks to my Dad who gave me perfect genes to go a drinking spree and not actually get drunk).

I tried Abseiling (Rappelling in India), which was entirely a new experience in my life. It is not every day that a person tries to walk down a cliff. The feeling and nervousness and the butterflies in your stomach makes you feels so lively.

I also saw a football match in a pub i.e. England VS Ukraine Match which England won 2-1. I saw how deeply the English loves their sport. It was a great feeling to hug each other when England scored and it was amusing the way the English cursed when Ukraine scored even it was only once.

I tried all sort of fast food joints; KFC's, Mcdonald's, Subway’s, Pizza Hut,... etc... All great, even though eventually I was pretty much bored of the fast food. I used to eat the favourite food of the UK people very regularly- Fish and Fries. It was yummy. I used to try all sort of food from a Turkish restaurant- Shish Kebabs, Doner's, Hummus with Pita Bread, and so on.....

I used to walk around the town, see places; roam around on the the High Streets; check out how the shoppers were doing, check out the window shoppers (especially the cute female window shoppers)

Overall, I had a vacation** in UK when the people of the world had a tough time because of the turbulent conditions prevailing. I guess "Destiny" has a big role on every one's life. There are many other people who would have wanted to visit England and do all the things i did over there. But they weren't sent, I was. I was destined to meet all those good people and have all the fun and learn and realise a couple of things i never thought i would. So, thank you Almighty God for giving a good destiny.

* Conditions Apply

** Hope my employers never see this blog