Finally, the wait of 4 months is over! This is me writing to you from my cozy apartment in Beirut. Feels great to finally have reached the destination after overcoming a series of hurdles such as bomb blasts, flight cancelations, visa issues etc. I have traveled abroad quite a lot in past three years but I can say that this visit to Beirut has turned out to be the most "happening" one! Right from getting an interview call from UN to yesterday morning where I had to go home from Mumbai airport because of some unknown new rule I didn't have the "ok to board" authorization from the Beirut Gulf Air office! So they had to "un-check" me!! Never ever had I imagined that such a thing would happen! But oh well, it's just an experience and I am taking it positively! Maybe such incidences are an unwritten description of my job!
Of course, it's been only a few hours that I am here, but still the city gives a positive vibe and people too seem to be nice! My house is pretty far from the airport, so on my way here I got to see a bit of Beirut and it's like any other international metropolitan city! There are nice, big, well-maintained buildings, super traffic (however being a Punekar, the traffic condition here didn't really surprise me! :p People were merrily going from no-entry, honking etc!), a lot of Arabic Banks which show the wealthiness... But I can't really comment on that now, as I haven't seen the other parts!
Well, this is all I can tell you after spending two hours in Beirut!
Before concluding this post I have to thank some important people! Aai-Baba for being soo cool and supportive! My travel agent Aashish who worked relentlessly to get things sorted and all my friends who have been such a great moral support in all these up-downs! (OK! Enough of filmstar-style-formal-thanking !! )
More later!
Till then, ciao!
No comments:
Post a Comment