Paris Trip 2023
- If everything goes to plan, this should take care of country #10 and 11 for this year! Sep 18, 2023
- Paris. 14 years later for me. 6 months for her!! Sep 19, 2023
- I do not know what those folks in the boat are thinking Sep 19, 2023
This is Paris. They are literally in-Seine !!
- For whom the Belle tolls Sep 19, 2023
- This is the closest I will probably ever get to the Louvre Sep 19, 2023
About 50 yards of separation from the entrance…
- One thing French that will always have a soft corner in my heart Sep 19, 2023
- Bengali alert – Cartier Sep 19, 2023
“Cartier” দোকানের নাম
ভেতরে ঢুকে দেখলাম
এক্কেবারে আকাশ ছোঁয়া দাম
পাতি “কাটিয়ে” দিলাম |
- This raises the age old question I always ask of strangers… Sep 19, 2023
“What would you want to be written on your tombstone?”
Never seen a tombstone on retail display before this. Ever!
- Question for all my Parisian friends Sep 19, 2023
This is the view from my room. I am in the Republique area. Look at all the roofs close to us. You see all those multiple chimney like pipes – almost looks like made of earthen clay – sticking out? What are they?
- Intersection Point in Paris!! Sep 20, 2023
I got to know Melania at work in Germany – oh! some 20 years back. Ever since then, we mostly have kept up thru phone calls and Facebook posts. Of course, there are those April birthday calls every year. I have been promising Melania to visit her whenever I find myself in Paris. But in spite of all my travels, I never made it to Paris for a long long time.
Finally this time, I made it. And Melania took some precious time off from work to come and visit me. I was running between being on the stage for a panel discussion and an office dinner meeting. And she was in the middle of a crucial sales cycle. In between, though, she biked up to where I was to have coffee and catch up on our lives and old friends.
I learnt quite a bit of skiing from her. Skiing is second nature to her. I do not think I will recognize a ski blade if I saw one. The part that blew my mind was that you can ski up a slope. I am not talking about starting with a momentum from a down slope. I am talking about starting from zero and then skiing up!
We also talked about politics in France, US and India; our old days in i2 in Germany and some of our dear friends from those days. And yes, rugby, football, American football and cricket too !!
She had to leave for work soon. It felt like we did not finish our conversation fully. It only means we need to make time to visit in US or France again!
Thank you Melania for taking to effort during office time to meet me for coffee!
- “A few” years back… Sep 20, 2023
Note that I dare not put a number to “a few” for physical security reasons.
Anyways, it was exactly at this spot “a few” years back that Sharmila and I had celebrated her 40th birthday.
Then met up with Reddy who used to live here for dinner!!
