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1st Day in UK.

I am here in UK to attend a SVM training for a week.
I was accompanied with Vallish (my colleague) for this training.

We took United emirates flight and flew via, chennai, Dubai to London Gatwick airport.


Weather is as usual in UK. It is lazy and cloudy.
Vallish has lost his baggage. He might get it today.
We went out for shoping for him. But absolutely no crowd on street.
All the shops were closed.
We were so used to so many people. Suddenly I started missing India.

We are driving a car here. We drove from Airport to Hotel. It was Fun.
We missed a road. We came from Airport till Surrey without any problem.
Once we came out of M3, we missed a turn from A331 to A325. We went somewhere.
We saw a board saying Frimley. we just went in that direction.
Luckily we didn't go too  far. We somehow reached Frimley Green.
We had direction till Frimley Green. We wanted to go to Wharf Road.
The whole place was deserted. Absolutely no one on the streets.
We stopped at a Shell Gas station near a round about and asked for direction.
It was just 100 yards from that round about but it was on the left.

We checked into our Hotel Continental. Hotel seems to be good.
Room is spacious and neat. It also has Gym and swimming pool.
Looks to be better that Lysmoyne Hotel in which I stayed last time.
But this hotel doesn't have any newspaper.
So far I haven't figured out how to connect to net.
Lady in reception doesn't seem to have knowledge about it.

We roamed around hotel in the evening. There is a bowling alley
and a night club in the same campus. We went to night club to see how it is.
They said that it is open only on saturday from 9 pm to 2 am.

In the evening myself and Vallish went out shopping. He wanted to buy a pair of
clothes. But there was no stores near our hotel. We asked a departmental store for direction
.
He said we might get in Frimley TOwn center. SO we drove till there.
Even that place was closed. No people on the streets. Place looked deserted
Very unlikely of India, where Sunday evening all the people are on the streets shopping

We went to a Indian Restaurant Cinnomon for dinner. The food was OK. Not bad.
Tomorrow we need to reach office. God knows how we will make it.

Posted at 09:41PM Apr 24, 2006 by madhu in General  |  Comments[1]