My First Visit to Foreign country.

I landed on Germany-Frankfurt Airport(One of the world famous) on 23 Apr morning, the cab was waiting for me to pick up and later dropped me to the hotel in Mannheim.The average speed of the journey was 140 Km/hr, and u will not even have the feel of it. The landscape was green. It was 1 hour journey to the hotel in Mannheim.To tell a little about Mannheim, this city was completely destroyed in WW-II, but rebuilt like anything in few years, You can relate Mannheim to our Mysore/Tumkur. Sunday nothing I did, just roamed around the Mannheim city in the afternoon and evening. It was shocking to see the day light till 9.00 PM, and later from one colleague I learnt that in Norway the day light extends upto 1.00 AM, this is shocking for we Indians, who dont see daylight after 7.00 PM.
I had to take public transport to reach office, a tram, a train and a bus. so total 45 mins journey from hotel. We could have taken a hotel near by office, but things are difficult there, it is village kind with very less access to the needs.
Three days weekend was the greatest one. we took a train to Amsterdam and reached there on saturday afternoon. To say few things about the city, it got its name because of a Dam built on the river Ams. Luckily on that day People of amsterdam were celebrating the queen's birthday. People in the city were on streets with orange dress. Dancing and boosing on the streets. Marijuna, beer were sold on the streets. The city is care free kind of thing, with gals and guys dancing on the street, free drugs and so as sex. More can be said about this carnival but impatient to write. Next day we went to Madam Tussauds museum, Canal ride and Wind mill museum. About Madam Tussaud u know, and about canal ride you would have seen in movies, hence i want to tell u about the wind mill on which i rate best amongst them.The amsterdam city is much below the sea level, and in rainy season people commuted by swimming and boating. Hence sometime in 17th century 5 wind mills were built to flush the water out of the city using the Archimedes screw. Currently only one is operating (wind power) others are replaced by eletric/diesel machines. The water is collected and flushed out into sea.

The next morning we returned back to hotel. And I visted the historic city near by Mannheim namely Heidelburg, the castle city. It had biggest barrel in world. The castle was destroyed in some war in 14 century then rebuilt and also a little bit destruction happened during Worl war. There is a river that separates the city and bridges are built parallely for connection. one can have beautiful view of this river/bridges from castle and view of castle from the bridge. my long week end got over with full exhaustion and excitement.

On one of the week days, a German colleague was good enough to take to Starusburg in France. Its 2 hrs journey from our office. the city is beautiful, colourful and had a good church.

On the last week end I had only saturday to roam around so as I did. I went to black forest, the dense jungle. One has to go to Titisee to see black forest. The world famous cuckoo clock are available here.There is a lake which will be frozen in winter for ppl to ski and watery in summer for boating.