Sunday, March 21, 2010

Towards Bonn , Germany

The first night just flew away dawning the longest day of our journey. Our next destination was Bonn, Germany. It is a long journey from Linkoping, Sweden. Knowing all difficulties that can come on the way, we decided to leave Linkoping early in the morning. Since we left the hostel before they served breakfast we had to stop on the way for breakfast. Well.. after that all I remember was road... :D Endless road... country roads.. narrow roads, wide roads.. all those roads led us to our second destination.

But just as we thought, this time also we exceeded the scheduled duration. In Denmark we had our dinner. According to the schedule we were supposed to have our dinner at Bonn, Germany. But it was just a sweet dream.

After 24 hours of painful, non stop driving we finally reached Bonn at 7 am next morning. It was such a big relief to reach our next destination.
This time we all were so exhausted. Luckily at Bonn, we stayed at one of our friends place where their kind hospitality helped to wash away the sweat. Clean linen and hot porridge was all that I was longing for. After a hot shower and a delicious breakfast we all fell fast asleep. All our plans for travelling around the city were just thrown to garbage and we embraced the bed for hours.
After about five hours of sound sleep we woke up for lunch. That was when the comfort seeking zone of our brains ruled our decisions and changed all the plans. Our friends were so furious about our risky trip and forced us to spend one more night at their place. But according to the plan we were supposed to leave Germany next morning. Well well... with all the nice treatments how could we resists.. Beside all the long driving ahead just rushed in to our mind like nightmares. So we changed the plans and decided to stay there for one more nights.. I do not know whether this was a wise decision but this resulted in so much of complexity towards the end of the journey.

So I advice you guys, don't change plans on the fly. And don't make any optimistic plans. Google maps are good if you are from mars :D.. Since you are a human from earth add an additional factor like 2^x to the duration given by Google maps, where x is the number of days + 2. So first day your delay can be 2^3 = 8 hours. The delay has an exponential relationship with the number of days you are travelling.
Hope my logic makes some sense. There's lot more to come in the future. So keep reading.

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