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Mumbai, India

May 19-25, 2018
 
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My first trip to India.  A place I was pretty sure I would never visit, unless a work trip came up.  And guess what...a work trip came up!   1 week in India (3 days in Bangalore and 2 in Mumbai) to visit our offshore teams.  It was an extremely sheltered experience, as I had a driver from the hotel to office every day and didn't do too much in between except eat, sleep and work.  Never the less - it was a great experience and even though I mostly got to see the city and locals from a car window, it was still worth those very small views into India life.  Biggest regret - I didn't take a foot photo!   Guess that means I'll have to go back someday to make up for it.  ;)  
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Trip Highlights

  • I arrived in Mumbai on Sunday evening, found my awaiting driver at the airport and checked into the Renaissance Mumbai for the next 3 nights.  Note - they have an awesome breakfast buffet.
  • The next morning my driver picked me up to go to our office - a gigantic building complex in Airoli, where I met with coworkers in various meetings for the day.  I ate Biryani in the cafeteria for lunch (that was spicy!) and then had dinner at the hotel that evening with my boss once he arrived.  
  • The following day was roughly the same, but we had a team buffet lunch at the office...which is the very sad photo below of rice, dal and chapati.  I was told not to trust the meat - so I played it safe.  
  • On Wednesday we visited a different office in Vikhroli West, and for lunch we really stepped it up with Domino's pizza on the campus.    That afternoon we headed off to catch our flights to Bangalore.  
View from the hotel
Lake right outside the hotel
Water buffalo by the lake
My sad cafeteria lunch plate
Domino's pizza
Walking through the office buildings in Vikrohli
Traffic jam
  • Bangalore was very quick.  We arrived in the evening and checked into the JW Marriott Bangalore.  A very nice hotel!  It was late, so we had some dinner at the hotel.  I stuck to my usual "safe" dish of Dal, rice and chapati.   
  • Thursday was a full day at the office, but before we went in my boss and I squeezed in some shopping for an hour in the morning.  It was my only taste of the "outside world" not in a car or other building.   We found a small market to do some souvenir shopping and to find myself a pashmina (or 2!).   
  • After work we met up with a colleague and had an Indian buffet dinner at the Marriott across town in Whitefield (or at least what felt like across town given how slow the traffic goes 

View from the JW Marriott in Bangalore
Souvenir shopping
Only pic of me in India!
I found this sign funny
How do you choose which one?!

  • After an exhausting week, it was time to head home.  Our flights left Bangalore around 1am, so after a short nap at the hotel, we headed to the airport. 
  • I flew from Bangalore to Frankfurt on Lufthansa, and then thankfully from Frankfurt back to the US I was upgraded to the very nice United Polaris business class seat!  
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