for all of you who envy me, and think it must be great to travel at company expenses to the four corners of this planet, here's my program for my next trip to India:
° Arrive Delhi on 15th night/16th early hours
° Meet Jindal Steel & Power at 10.30 hrs on 16/10
° Leave Delhi for Kolkata by IC - 264 on 16/10 : Dep Delhi at 17.00 hrs and arrival Kolkata at 18.55 hrs on 16/10 (I'll have some gin & tonics then, lol)
° Leave Kolkata (Howrah Railway Station) for Tatanagar by Train on 17/10 morning : Departure Kolkata at 06.10 hrs (means getting up at 4 am, maybe i don't go to sleep and continue with the gin & tonic) & arrival Tatanagar at 09.45 hrs
° Meeting with Tata Steel officials on 17/10
° Leave Tatanagar Railway Station for Kolkata on 17/10: Dep Tatanagar at 20.00 Hrs and arrive Bhubneshwar on 18th Morning at around 08.00hrs .
° Leave Bhubneshwar on 18/10 at 9.00/9.30 for Jindal Stainless Plant at Jajpur. Reach Jajpur by about 11.30 hrs
° Leave Jajpur in the afternoon around 15.00 hrs and reach Jindal Steel Office at 17.00 hrs to meet Mr. Ashish Das
° Leave for Delhi on the 19/10 by IC 878 - Dep at 14.30 hrs enroute to Europe
Any takers ?????
It was like this for many many years (plane-taxi-meeting-taxi-hotel-taxi-plane- etc etc), but since a couple of months I am incorporating more time.
Hence, I arrive in India earlier. I asked my secretary to book a flight on Friday 13th (omg, lol) in order to be able to visit the Taj Mahal (hope to post some pics of that here, if I get to the next level, or send them to the people I have an EM addy from).
