Taste of a german family

Its a thought in general of the young that the real enjoyment is possible or infact allowed when you are away from your family, and you can eat drink and do whatever you want. but the love that the family shows whereever you are is something which always drags you. and particularly out of the country, its a great feeling to spend time with families and think of your sweet memories

and it was time for me in germany to be invited by a colleauge to his house and spend some time with his family. it was jeurgen, a key account manager in behr, who invited me to his house in goppingen. he was always sympathetic towards me for being away from my family, which reminded him the days he spent in Brazil!!!

so it was a saturday afternoon when i took the train to goppingen where he was already ready to pick me up. i never dreamt that he had such a big family, and unlike the europeans there was such a good bonding between his own family, his brothers, aunts, parents and inlaws. so i was lucky enough to meet such a big family. 

he has a very nice house with 4 children, 3 boys and a very cute little girl. along with them stay 2 dogs and 2 cats :), so a big family of course...

we went to a mexican restaurant, and believe me, if you are longing for indian tastes, some mexican food can really satisfy your apetite. so all along the dinner time we had some wonderful conversation. it was basically related to india because their family was mad about our country. they travelled to so many places i bet atleast 90% of indians would never have been to. i am lucky enough to travel to a lot of places courtesy my job as a marketing engineer for behr. so i was the best one to challenge them in the number of places covered.

one situtation which they explained when they travelled from cochin to goa in a general compartment, sleeeping on a bag infront of the toilet......was good to hear, certainly was an awesome experience for them.

they love indian food, infact the younger bro of jeurgen, michael, makes palak paneer and gobi manchurian at home even today!!!

after the delicious meal, it was time to head to their house and take a relaxing beer. they even had a hindi songs CD, which i thought they played for me that day, but infact they were the favourite songs of the whole family. and the little girl was singing the songs and was giving a competition to whoever the singer was.

it was wholly a memorable experience. it was getting late and i had to go back.

it was an experience i cherished and will be remembered for a long time.......thanks again to the family.