Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Pune


Every morning a company van (Force Traveller) picked up all the MAN colleagues staying at the hotel. During our stay more and more showed up: accounting, IT, marketing and product strategy.  Same way we got back after six in the evening. The working week here is Monday to Saturday so we joined our Indian colleagues on sixth day.



The first days, we kept on clicking all the scenes that we could from the car.

cows in the street

camels, too!

But with time passing, we retired of this task a bit and started reading the local newspaper.

Garbage trucks we saw mainly on sundays.

Sugar cane wallah

Another way of transporting goods.

On our first weekend (mainly sunday) we went shopping, sightseeing and dining out. For more see the separate blog entry.

At the end of the second week I started visiting dealerships of MAN & competitors and had a look at their branding.


Friday evening, I spent with Saswati (an Indian colleague) and her husband talking, cooking non spicy Indian food & pancakes with Nutella and watching cricket. Next morning, she took me back on her scooter to work.


We stayed at the Royal Orchid Central. They offered exceptional and fast service: welcome, set up of internet, alteration of clothes and much more.

The hotel has three restaurants, but I tested only Pinxx for breakfasts and one dinner. It was okay but most of the times we ate at the mall opposite to the hotel or in the restaurants around.
We enjoyed also the pool and health centre. The hotel did send a car to pick me up from the airport and also brought us back there for our flight to Chennai.

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