Idle musings

For six days starting from 18-Aug-2019, I went to Pune on an official visit along with friends and colleagues. This blog post captures my impressions about the visit. The hyperlinks provide useful supplementary information. As usual, I shall avoid using names. I will say this about the official purpose of our visit: The training that I attended gave me new insights into a familiar topic. The trainer shared professional experiences which aided in a better understanding. To me, this was the biggest take away from the training session. The rest of this blog post is about the non-official side of the trip ! Since there were several of us, we made two groups staying in two different hotels. In our hotel, we were ten of us. One person among us had lived in Pune earlier. His familiarity with the eateries in the area where our hotel was located was a big advantage for us. On Sunday afternoon when we arrived in Pune, we ate a simple lunch of misal pav and sabu dana vada. This was a rec