Time to start a new chapter

The fresh breeze leaves no doubt that this year’s summer is finally over and the time has come to turn the last page of my story of India and Nepal.

It took me only a few hours to fly back, but days to ultimately arrive. Too intense has been the experience, too rough the rapid change. I spent days strolling around, enjoying the unique atmosphere of Vienna’s coffeehouses, having long conversations with friends, etc. until one certain E-Mail introduced me to the newest chapter of my life: a 12-month long “Verwaltungspraktikum” in the Austrian Foreign Ministry starting on October 1st.

I am just as happy to be offered to take this chance as ready to move on, but still, I feel that there are two or three things left to say:

During my journey through Tamil Nadu I meet Ramki. Once a successful manager, he decided from on day to the other to dedicate his life to the Indian cuisine. He started out with experimenting in this own kitchen and later opened a small café, where even I learned to prepare some Indian snacks. At the moment he eagerly works on his blog, where he offers free recipes of Indian cuisine. With his easy to use “one-page-recipes” he tries to prove that the Indian cuisine is less complicated than most Non-Indians might think. I want to help him to spread this truth and recommend all Indian-cuisine-lovers to take a look at http://ramkicooks.blogspot.com/

And last but not least: The certainty of knowing that the days of free timing are going to be rare in the near future, brought me to reopen the folder of pictures, I created the day of my arrival to Vienna. To be honest, it took me quite a while to choose between a 100 and 150 pictures out of more than 2000, but for everybody who is interested, this is the result: Discovering Ganesh.