Ich mag Herausforderungen, ich mag Anstrengung, ich mag ein wenig Drill wenn es um Sport geht. “No pain no gain“ oder wie heißt es so schön! Auf der Suche nach einer neuen Herausforderung las ich etwas über Bikram Yoga. Mein Interesse war geweckt: 90 Minuten, 26 Übungen, 2 Wiederholungen bei mollig-warmen 38 Grad Raumtemperatur. Bikram…
The first day of my second week in Wiesbaden, Angelika and Brigit decided to take me to Eltville am Rhein, which is well known as “the city of wine, Sekt (sparkling wine) and roses”. It is picturesquely situated amid vineyards and the River Rhine. You walk along these cobble street paths and these typical German…
We had decided to do the Apfelwein tour, but after reading some not so good reviews about the tour I decided against it. Instead, I asked Miriam to show me around some of her favourite things to do in Frankfurt. We walked to Saint Bartholomeus’s Cathedral, which is a Gothic building constructed in the 14th…
I also visited the Kurhaus, now hosting a casino and a restaurant. Beyond the Kurhaus is this lush green park with a fountain right in the centre. I love walking, it is one of my favourite pastimes, in Mumbai, however one cannot walk much due to the lack of open spaces and infrastructure, which…
I reached Wiesbaden, which is a beautiful, picturesque town. Most of the buildings are still in original form and survived the war. My work place and place of residence for the next two weeks was this wonderful old building with high ceilings and large open spaces similar to the old colonial buildings that you see…
It all started as an idea, an idea from my boss Beate Mauder at Indiva Marketing, a terrific PR Agency in Mumbai, India. She suggested that as an overall cultural and learning programme I should go for an exchange programme to Text&Aktion, a PR agency of similar repute in Wiesbaden, Germany. It was definitely…
Auf dem Heimweg von Casablanca nach Frankfurt roch das ganze Flugzeug nach Zitronen, Ingwer, Ras el Hanout und Kardamon – so groß war unsere Ausbeute des Gewürzmarktes von El Jadida in Marokko. Drei Tage lang wandelte ich mit netten Journalisten im und um das Mazagan Beach Hotel herum auf den Spuren von erlesenen Gerichten, exotischen…
