Independence Day In Vienna

Wednesday 15^th August 2007

So today is my first independence day outside India, yesterday While Checking on Orkut I came across a community of Indians in Vienna, and incidentally I got invitation for Independence Day on that community. So we thought of giving it a shot, so myself, Ali and George decided to go to embassy for Independence Day Celebration.

Thou we were late we reached there by 9.10 Am scheduled time was 9.00 am. We could catch up with the Prime-ministers address well in time. Then we had some refreshment my heart was bagg bagg by seeing alu bonda and shira, and I had a lot of apple juice. Most Interesting part came after that, we met lot of Indians there, especially the students and lot of Maharastrian among them. And our Host ambassador Shri Sharmaji came from nearby place to my place he is from Shivini so we had a good chat. Got to know lot of people, I cannot remember every-bodies name but prominent among them was mishraji doing his Phd in Material Science, A husband wife from shirdi and one more Bengali couple doing there Phd. One more guy from Kolhapur and one more from Bangalore.

Anyway they will be in contact through ORKUT and I am planning a visit to university. I came to know that there is a Marathi sammelen in Munich shock for me.

Then we went to Shonbrun summer palace, it was huge and beautiful, but exhausting and then we came to our Chinese restaurant but sadly they did not give buffet so had good food by ordering. Again I was Pissed off cause of all this business of closing shops on days when we working people have time to go out.