Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Experiences of Germany Trip - Part 2

Once i reached the Leipzig airport now started all the trouble. My tamil friend(who is the only person who can talk in english) just left on his way to his college and now i am in search of a taxi for me to go to Halle. Yes, i need to travel again for another 20 mins to reach my destination. The actual problem now was that the only person who knows english well had left me on his way to his destination. I just stood there looking for a taxi and suddenly a big Mercedes Benz black color came and stood in front of me. I wondered who was it and was just so surprised (in fact schocked) to see that it was a Taxi. WOW !! Mercedes Benz in black color and i am going to sit in that. That very thought made my mood. I Love cars a lot. I did  not want to wait and put my luggage in the back of the car and just made myself comfortable in the car. I took a paper from my bag which had the address of the hotel and showed it to the driver. Then i only remembered the Sunday afternoon news for hearing impared in DD. Wow no talking only signs. He shows me a Thumbs UP and we started from there. All of the time i was just admiring my self in the car and the roads of germany. WOW MAN what a clean place. Never saw anything like this before. Was so very happy. 

We drove for another 20 mins and i was at my hotel. I just paid the taxi, took my luggage and stood just like that on the road just to feel my feet on German soil. Yes i am really in Germany way far away from my home sweet home INDIA. The place i was in is known as Halle/Saale. Saale is the river that flows through the city. For sometime i was feeling that i was the only person alive on the earth. It was so very quite and not even a single person to be seen on roads. Remember the time was 12:00 in the afternoon and was Monday. It was very terrifying. The hotel door was locked from inside. I need to press the bell and wait. Then came a beautiful German girl from inside opened the door and said something in german (which i later realised that was 'WELCOME'). So went in Checked-in to the hotel. My Hotel was City Hotel room no.114. I entered the room along with my luggage and was a very small room with a kitchen. I put all my luggage at one place and just jumped onto the bed. The bed was so very soft and good i just did not get up for 10 mins. Then looked around the room and checked everything. I put my wrist watch on the table and went onto the bed again to sleep. After sometime i can hear the clock ticking sound of my wrist watch which is at atleast of 3 feet distance from my bed. That was the silence i was living in. I could feel my ears crying loud for some kind of sound. To just make myself feel better, i opened my laptop and played some real good old indian songs. Felt better. Then i realised that its time for lunch. 

To be continued ...