Incredible India - a PHP adventure - Part2
Sunday bloody relaxing Sunday… Sleeping with 30 degrees in the room is not so easy - at least for me. And the A/C is too loud to leave it running. But i survived the night and now I feel quite well.
The resort where we stay is quite small and kosy. On the website it looks like it is on the beach what is not true - it’s 150 meters to walk but ohh well.. this beach is not what you want to have for your holiday. From one horizon to the other horizon you have high waves, dirty water, cows, nasty dogs, fisher boats and some people nevertheless jumping around in the waves.
After one hour in the pool (when the water has 30+ degrees you can stay looong) we had a first snack (Chicken Masala and Chicken Curry). Did I mention that I love indian food ? I do! Oh man and I tell you it was hot…
People are incredibly friendly - everything is fine, no problem and smiling a lot even if they have no clue what you want from then. Let me give you an example.
Yesterday I witnessed a nice conversation which Iris (our personal care taker - yes here you get such a thing) had with the guy from the hotel:
Guy: Smiling. “you need to change room, A/C is not working”
Iris: “But I like this room. Can you fix it tomorrow then it will be ok for one night.”
Guy: Smiling. “yes sure”
Iris: “Promised?”
Guy: even more smiling. “yes”
Iris: “But tomorrow is sunday, will it then still be possible to fix?”
Guy: Smiling a lot. “yes yes no problem”
Iris: “Promised?”
Guy: Smiling. “no”
Iris: “So you won’t fix it tomorrow?”
Guy: Looking sad but smiling. “no”
… Incredible India 
BTW Iris is an old friend of mine who helps european companies to outsource to india. She will find the right partner and furthermore trainsyou also about cultural differences - and there are tons of them.
The company she made contact to for us seems to be very professional. They even asked her (she is german) to come with us and take care about us instead of hiring some indian people. Quite impressive. For us this is very convinient as we do not have to care about anything. But hey - even if there would be something to care about - it would be “no problem…” 
In the evening we went to a really nice restaurant called ‘Amethyst‘. Incredibly nice place, sitting in the middle of the jungle tough it’s in the center of the city. This place is frequented by the new middle class of india so there were not much tourists around - unfortunately this means that they don’t offer indian food instead we had italian food. So I enjoyed a tomato basil soup and some basil chicken which I considered ok but I had definitly better ones. But this is india taking this into account the food was quite good.
Interesting is that they also do not offer alcohol, it seems not to be accepted here. We went to buy a few bottles of beer and it turned out to be quite complex - you need to find a liquor store which is hidden somewhere, in the back of a large shopping mall. But we made it and so finally I enyoed one bottle of beer before going to bed. I did plan to watch the game (Italy-Spain in EM 2008) but I did not make it - felt to sleep at around 23:00 local time and had a really relaxed night.
So now I am ready for all the interesting things coming up tomorrow.
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Changing rooms .. hm, where do I know that from