Bangalore to Denmark!!!

Due to company onsite I travelled to Denmark. It was my first international journey. And I must say I really enjoyed it.

My journey plan was -

7:30 - 8:00 Bangalore to Chennai 30 mins

1:30 - 11:30 Chennai to Paris 10 hrs

6:30 - 7:30 Paris to Copenhagen, Denmark 1 hrs

We started around 7:30 pm from Bangalore to Chennai. There I saw recorded Laughter Challenge program in plane. I think it was KingFisher airlines. Its really good. We arrived in Chennai around 8:30 pm, there one of my friends bag got some scratch in handling by airlines people. So we went to the airlines people and asked for some replacement or some kind of arrangement. But they couldn't help as they said that its not possible to replace it in 2 hrs. So we just launched the complain and we proceeded towards International Departures.

Then after going there we checked in our luggage, and then went for Emigration check. There they asked us few questions about when will you return, where are you going and bla bla bla....

After sitting idle for 2-3 hours on international airport, when it was 1 am in midnight, we got into our flight which was at 1:30 am. It was Air France flight whih is really good.. its nice, you have tv screen in front of you where you have some recorded programs, also there are radio channels. So you will be always busy in fliat either eating or seeing some program or doing something else. There must be some fundamental reason behind these Airlines people for keeping us always busy when we are in flight. I have seen this in almost all the airlines. They don't want to miss a single chance to serve us.

During booking the ticket we had given food preference as Special Veg Meal. So while they were serving us dinner, initially one air-host came and he pasted one sticker on our seat saying special veg meal so as to identify us. We were happy that we are being treated specially. Here I am mentioning we all the time because we were actually three friends travelling together. Then we got some dishes with some veg food.... it was ok. We should not say bad to food. The taste was good but quantity was less. Also my other friends were happy as they serve rum, whisky in plane and that is free. After some time my other flight mates got there normal food.... which was same as special veg meal with some additional curd and sweet. Then I realised what does it mean by Special Veg meal. Then in the night I saw few comedy programs and then slept around 4 am or something.

When I got up in the morning, 2-3 hours were remaining to reach to Paris. So there was a bit excitement that I am going to see Paris. Then after finising important morning work, I had my breakfast. Here important morning work has also got a story with it. In Air France they don't provide water in toilet, they just have toilet paper. So we have to do some idea to get water or have to use paper. I saw some bottle inside toilet and then I didn't miss chance to use it :)

We landed in Paris around 8:30 am EST in the morning. When we came out of air-plane, outside temperature was around 4 degree celcius. So when we came out and we breathed and through air out of our mouth, it was hot air. We could see it as if we were smoking.. And it was freezing cold outside. So we can say that it was really a cool experience.....

Then we finished our Emigration Check. If you are coming to Europe, you have to do this check in India International Airport and your first point of entry in Europe. My first point of entry in Europe was Paris, so I did my Emigration check there. There the lady office who was doing emigration check was sitting with another person. Both of them were quite young, chitchatting with each other, doing some jokes and enjoying.... so they didn't bother to ask us any questions.

And one more thing is, Paris is the first place for me to start observing European beauty. So you can imagine, I don't think I need to tell you everything. I can just say that everybody was looking good :)

Our next flight from Paris was at 3:30 pm EST. So we had around 7 hours gap. So we were thinking about going in city and seeing Eiffel tower. So we enquired to some french people about that, and they said, 'Yes, its possible. But are you sure that you will come back before your next flight?'. hmm.....there was big risk of missing the next flight. Also we had luggage with us, and if you want to keep luggage on airport in some place, they would be charging you in Euros.... so we cancelled the plan.

Then we made calls to our relatives to India to tell about our safe journey to Paris and then we just roamed inside air port. We saw some type of train there which was very good. The Paris Airport is the biggest airport I have ever seen. Its very very big. So after some airport seeing we started searching for some hotel for lunch and after much search we got our lunch at some place. It was around 12€ for 3 people. And there was no taste to the food otherwise it was good.

At 3:30 we started our journey to Denmark. Now in this flight it was different experience. Most of the things were in Danish. No..no .. wait wait... i am not sure whether they were in Danish or in Finnish... But it was different than English.... Like for me Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malyalam all are same languages, because I don't know any of them. Same case here. We reached at around 7:30 pm(11 pm Indian time) to Copenhagen, Denmark. So it was a safe, 24 hour exciting journey.

We arrived on Copenhagen Airport, then called on of my friend and asked him the guest house address. As the guest house was not fixed until I came to Denmark. Then we took taxi and went to the guest house, my friend was waiting there.

He just told us that today is Sunday and most of the shops will be closed. It was 7 in the evening. I thought we will get some mobile card, but that day it was impossible. Then I just took my friend's mobile and called company HR to ask about office address and how to come ot office.. But he just told about the office address...He was not knowing the way to go to office. Then my friend left. Then my flat mate and me we went in PIZZA Hut. We took one pizza for some 50 Kroners.. i.e. 350 rupees. that was quite big and sufficient for both of us. Then we just went to our guest house. We watched TV for sometime....and then slept....