First leg - final draft

The first leg is now planned out. For a short overview, just read through the list below. For additional, more detailed information, please click on “(more…)”

Bregenz – austrian/german border – Lindau – Munich – Passau – german/austrian border - Vienna – Hainburg – austrian/slovakian border – Bratislava – slovakian/hungarian border – Györ – Komàron – hungarian/slovakian border – Komarno - slovakian/hungarian border – Tata – Esztergom – Visegrad – Szentendre – Budapest – Gyöngyös – Damoszlo – Verpélet – Eger – Mezökovesd – Tiszafüred – Hortobagy Nationalpark – Püspökladony – Bihar – Keresztes – hungarian/romanian border – Oradea (Großwardein) – Cluj Napoca (Klausenburg) – Turda (Thorenburg (sic!)) – Alba Julia – Sebes – Sibiu (Hermannstadt) –

Now I have two options planned out, the decision which one I´ll take will be taken the day of my arrival.

Option1: Fögoras – Brasov – Sinaia – Targovista -
Option 2: Carta – Curtea se Arges – Pitesti -

Bucuresti – Constanta – Mangalia – Varna – Veche – romanian / bulgarian border – Durankulak – Schabla – Kamen Brjag – Baltschik – Varna – Kamtschiga – Bjala – Burgas – Djuni – Primorska – Malko Tarnovo – bulgarian / turkish border – Dereköy – Sarpdere – Demirköy - Istanbul

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My itinerary - 1st leg - update

Phrasebook Hindi - first draft

N.B.: This phrasebook is purely phonetic, based on german phonetics as I see them. So I’m not responsible for any misunderstandings and unpleasant events that might result from them. Use it at your own risk.

>> How to address people
In german, you’ve got the familiar "du" and the polite and distant "sie". In Hindi, there’re three different forms to address people: tu, tum and aap. Tu is intimate, pally but on the other hand also haughty - so be very, very careful with it. Tum is used to address people on a lower or equal social scale. Aap is used to address people on the same or higher social scale. It’s a polite form, not meaning distance, also used between friends, thus by far the best word to use.

>> Attscha
This is a word you’ll hear constantly in India, it’s by far the most used word in Hindi. It’s initial meaning is good, beautiful, all right, but in our days, it has turned into a general purpose word, you use when you don’t know what else to say. It can mean really?, ok, but.., I understand, I don’t understand, and many more. It’s all about emphasis, so have fun.

To access the phrasebook, just click on more….

That’s all for now, tomorrow, during my coffee break, I’ll meet the guys from India again and we’ll work further on the phrasebook.
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