January 2 +3...Final Days in Hyderabad

January 2 + 3…Final Days in Hyderabad

Well it’s our last days before we head back to Switzerland.  This means last great India food, a little shopping and getting ready for our 4:15 AM drive to the airport!

Again, Anjani was kind enough to send us a car to finish our tour of Hyderabad. We first headed back to the market in the Old town and picked up a Masala Dabbas which is a spice tray, usually stainless steel with seven removable round containers, lid and a small spoon that fits in the box. I really like these handy trays. When you cook, you open the lid and all of the spices are at your fingertips without you having to rustle around hunting for jars of cumin seeds, cayenne, or cloves, etc. You don’t have to use it only for Indian spices. In fact I got two, one for India spices and one for Asian cooking. I do now wish I got a third for western cooking. It just makes it easy when you need a bunch of spices for a recipe.

We then headed off to Shilpa Ramam to shop the Arts and Crafts village for a few gifts to take back home. It is located near Hi Tech city which is such a contrast to the Old part of town. Shilpa Ramam seems very interesting and I would like to go back and view some of the cultural events that they host.

After a hot and hazy day out we decided to head back to hotel and book a table at the restaurant Kebab E Bahar, for some more black lentils!

We reflected over our week and felt completely different than the day we arrived. I can’t explain fully the transformation that happened to us. I can say we became closer and felt content that we were doing the right thing at the right place. We realized that we had just taken the first step and we were on the road to obtaining our dream of having a family. It felt good and we both went to bed with smiles on our faces that night.

Thank goodness we went to bed early, due to our car picked us up at the hotel at 4:30 A.M. and whisked us to the airport like a mad man. Considering there were hardly any cars on the road, our driver decided to drive like a formula 1 driver. We did arrive at the airport in one piece thankfully and we jumped into the crazy and frantic crowd vying to enter the main terminal.  We checked in, headed to security and went for coffee to wait for our flight to board. 

While we were boarding, we had another security check and unfortunately William lost his ticket for his carry-on bag and was escorted back to the first security check to repeat the whole process again.  He made it back and was able to board on time.  Our first leg to the UK was going to be 11 hours that felt like 30. When are we going to get there!  When we finally landed, we found out that our flight to Geneva was delayed and we also found out a handy tip to figure out how long your flight will be delayed.

Tip: A lovely lady at terminal 5, Heathrow told us if  your flight shows a 1, 7, or 9 in the minutes part of its new time this means that it is not a firm time and could change again. So for example our flight said our new departure time would now be 4:17, which the lovely lady said it meant that it was not confirmed. Sure enough she was right. We did get another posting that said our next new departure time was 5:29, sure enough that was not correct either. It was not until they posted 5:35 did we actually  board our plane back to Geneva. I do not know if this works everywhere but it seems to make sense.

Well that was my week in Hyderabad and now I am back in Switzerland. I still have a lot to say and will update you to the present soon.