Well, there is one thing here we just cannot quite get used to.
The traffic!
We live about 20 km away from work.The traffic is so dence that it takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get to work and about 2 hours to get back.
Everyone of these drivers outthere would be fined and sent to prison for driving like that in Europe. It's bad!

Well, that's what happens when about 70.000 people work i a very small area and start and stop at the same times.

Hi everyone at home

We have been fully installed at Ascendum.
Everyone is great here, and the initial shock has passed.
It seems every foreigner goes through that.

The weekend was nice. We went with our host to her farm house outside of town and visited a township at that village. There was a pool, so I bought a hideous swimming suit and hopped in.

Sunday was quite rainy, but Alex and I went down to M.G. Road. That's the main shopping street here.
We also went to the old Ulsoor market, that has about anything you could possibly want to buy. From hardware to sweets.

Here are a few picture for you to enjoy.


Temple


Across the street


Cambridge Road

Click on the pictures to see a larger version.

Hi everyone!

We're here in Bangalore.
The flight was normal, no trouble at all.
The first day was rough, and we both got quite a cultural shock.
The trafic to work is hell.
I find the food very nice, but Alex thinks it's too spicy as always.
It's not easy being here, but we'll probably adjust.

I haven't been able to transfer any photos to the computer yet, but will post some as soon as I can.

Lots of hugs to everyone at home.

Currently we're somewhere between looking foreward and panicing.

Everything seems to be on track.
The malaria medication has slight side effects such as nausea, headache ,and drowsiness, but we'll be OK.

Today our visa arrived by mail and I've just booked our hotel.
That sets our status to:

Flight OK
Company OK
Vaccination OK
insurrance OK
Accommodation OK
Visa OK

Now, thats great news!

We have to start taking our malaria pills next week.
Anxiety is getting more by the second.

We had a few problems concerning communication, but everything seems to be back on track again.

The large issues are taken care of, just the visa process ist still running.

We received a phone call from our travel agency, and they offered to transfer our plane tickets to a very new route that goes via London and then directly to Bangalore.
The old trip would have taken us to Frankfurt, Mumbai and then Bangalore. We would have had 3 hours time in Frankfurt and 3½ in Mumbai. This saves us so many hours of waiting.

Travel insurance is OK
Vaccination OK
Visa PENDING
Accommodation PENDING

Below you will find the link to Ascendum.com
That is where we are going.

hugs and kisses