Travelling to Hyderabad

After about 2 months of working on the Bloom project, Rob Smeding and myself got on the plain yesterday to start our visit to India. As everybody knows when you are travelling, you can never know what you can expect. Our flight to Mumbai was all good, and as a surprise our luggage made it as well on the same time! So, with our high hopes up, we got out of the terminal to search for out hotel contact-person. Unfortunatly, we were unable to locate them. The security officer of the airport helped us out by calling the hotel. Turns out the were expecting us at 11:30 AM instead of 11:30 PM, and there were no rooms available left. We arranged for a different hotel, so we did get a couple of hours of sleep before travelling to the domestic airport. Everything went really smooth there, and before we knew it we were standing at Hyderabad airport. The airport is very beautifull, its actually listed in the India top-5 of best airports. Unfortunatly, it's not allowed to take pictures of the airport, so I'll try to take some when we are going to leave from a distance.

From the airport, we got a cab to the hotel. After finally arriving at our final destination (the taxi driver had some trouble finding the hotel first), we also met with our colleague who had arrived this morning as well. Being tired from basically skipping a night's rest, we had a short breakfast and then went to our room to freshen up a bit and get some extra sleep. Tonight we'll be going to get some dinner, and we'll try to start fresh and sharp tomorrow morning.

My first impression up to this point are very mixed and overwhelming, but I'm very happy that our colleague from Bangalore to guide us during our visit.