Part 2 of the Trip

( For part 1 of the trip , read the post just below this one )

The next day I had breakfast with my multi talented , multilingual Project manager. This person is one active , hyper enthusiastic person ( I at times, look pale in comparison !) and can speak loads of languages and has lots of experience in South American countries ! Some of the languages he speakes include English ( duh! obvious :P ), Spanish ( alright), Italian , German and French !

The trip was really short to visit any actual monument or something of that sort, but we did visit , what I thought were really HIP malls ! My project manager dismissed it saying its nothing compared to any of the US malls !

A few things about Caracas :

1. Wonderful place , with mountains at the backdrop.
2. Traffic is as bad, at times worse than Bangalore.
3. Forget about surviving in Caracas without knowing Spanish! Gracias!
4. Politically, its very tricky . Let me not go into that.
5. Everyone seems to be so amazingly good looking . I have been telling so many people that Miss Venezuela would anyday be a tougher competition than Miss world .
6. People are hospitable but your not advised to go out alone if your not a local.
7. Vegetarians dont have too many options but you can eat something definitely.
8. The five star hotel was more like 2 or 3 star hotel.
9. People are extremely conscious about what they speak in public due to the situation there right now.
10. As Venezuela is a big exporter of Petroleum, the petrol price is really really cheap !!
11. Definitely worth a visit without an inkling of doubt.

My 3 days were over and soon it was time to head back .

Flight 4 : Alitalia again to Milan ! I have not sat in any flight where I experienced so much turbulence. It was extremely scary and i was just praying throughout the journey. Well, I seriously am shit scared of turbulence!

Flight 5 : From Milan to Mumbai. I got some company in this flight in the form of a lawyer from Mumbai who had won a Ten sports contest to watch a UEFA champions league match in Milan. She was super excited and I got a good overview of what to expect in Milan .
First time, i had met a winner of this sort !

Flight 6 : I was extremely tired by this time after having sat in consecutive flights. However, the last flight was highly adventurous ! The flight was a Jet aircraft that housed 50 people and the departure time was 3.30 am. Soon the flight took off, but then destiny had its own ideas. The captain announced that due to weather issues we had to return back to Mumbai.
As soon as we landed ,there were quite a few engineers who came to rectify the situation and after a chaotic time , finally we were asked to take another flight. We were all sure it was a technical snag but they didn't want to let us know maybe coz' we would panic! Finally, we boarded the flight at 6.15am and I was ecstatic amidst all my exhaustion by the time we landed in Bangalore close to 8.30am !
The funny part was there was another scheduled flight from Mumbai ( Jet again ) at 6.40 am and this flight also landed at around the same time we landed !

Anyways, all's well that ends well . But it was definitely one trip that was really short and filled with loads of incidents. More than happy to be back here safe and sound !

God bless. Amen .