First move to Europe

So ye hai shuruaat...yes a start, when i am starting to write down some.This is a start of a journey that I will make in coming few days to few European Countries.

At the start, I am not excited, even now I am not but there is someone who is, X ,who asked me to pen it down and share. Well, no names of that someone but for an introduction, this person is full of awesomeness and the is the one I love to tease. 

Well, lets move forward. To start with, let go back few days and see where it all started.

[the beginning...]

This is end of July'16 and I am busy with my work in office and suddenly this colleague of mine, mrB, popped into my desk. As usual I greeted him and paid a half hearted attention as my mind is still with my work. Well, he pulled my attention as he was a little serious and in hurry as well. He started explaining about this Panoramic Tour to Europe offered by Start Tours for countries including France, Belgium ,Germany and Switzerland. And then he explained the trouble he had with his plans. He wanted to go for it but he opts as a single, he need to pay almost 20% extra. I am not sure if his other circle friends were not interested or he was serious when he told that he cant ask them as they are not good fit while going with family. Well, he asked me if I am good to opt for this trip and it was like I was waiting for someone to take initiative for such a trip. Lets pause  moment here and lemme tell you that I am kinda person, who dont love travelling until I got a company who can take care of the trip plan and other things, else I enjoy company of my close friends only, and unfortunately the later is not the case. In this case this was a Jackpot kinda, as the trip is pre-planned by a tour agency and I have a company, yeah its not a very familiar company but yes it will do this time. So thats all how it started. 

[the first mark..]

As my bank account is not fully functional cause of some mobile banking issues, mrB took care of booking two seats and we are through the first hurdle. We booked a tour starting from 26th August'16. And believe me its not over here, this was first and there is lot more to go. 

[the second...]

The next is to get Schengen visa to visit the European Country. Well this is the phase irritated me the most. First of all, people, at times, scares a lot and scares others as well with their illogical belief and understanding. I am skipping this section saying that we applied to the TLS for the visa to France directly and got it it well in time. The learning here is, dont trust until you find a logical reasoning to believe it. But if you have doubt better get it cleared rather living in dilemma.The staff at the TLS office are the French and are very nice and supportive.In our case all went fine with documentation and we got our visa within 5 days after we appeared for the bio-metric.

[the third...]

This is the time gap between we got the visa and the tour start date.

I am still not excited, i wanted it to come to me but I think I am not all correct here. Luckily I have a X in my circle who I was chatting today and I realised, being totally passive is like playing the dumb. Its like the person who is waiting for the God to come and save him, while he denied all the help God sent to save him. Well thanks X, for being the inspiration and guide to this phase of life. Well, I am still not much excited but this conversation with X has provided me a goal, an objective to achieve which, I have to be an eye. And here i am giving it a try.

After that conversation, I felt the air around. It was damn cold, humid and fresh as I was standing under the cloudy sky and it was light showers and strong wind around. Now I am home and first enjoyed a hot tea with fresh boiled eggs and now mrGoogle is on.

At first I have opened the itinerary of the trip. And now i am starting exploring for the places I am going to visit. This is going to make me a 20% guide of the places I am going to visit, at least I will not require to trouble mrGoogle again and again.

The first attraction on the list is in Belgium named the Atomium. This is a tall building in Brussels [capital of Belgium]. This building resembles to the atomic structure of the iron crystal. This structure was built in 1958 and is inspired by the faith people have in science and its progress at that time.