Cake meeting and team dinner - Day 5
I took part in a company wide cake meeting. We were about 10 employees on site and we convened in a conference room. This is supposed to be a company tradition called "Ugot". I was then invited for a team dinner that evening to a Brazilian restaurant called "Bocha Roca". A collegue drove me to the restaurant through the streets of Paris in his Audi and it was a nice drive. He showed me important places like the "Champs Elysees", "Musee de Lourve", "Palais Royal", "Place De La Bastille" and so on. He drove through the "Avenue De Champs Elysees" which is like the "Times Square in New York", "M.G.Road in Pune", "M.G.Road in Bangalore" and so on.. Parking near the restaurant was an absolute nightmare and we were going around for about 20 mins. Just as we were about to give up, we found a parking spot just enough for the Audi. The parallel parking was just amazing. I thought I knew how to park but after seeing my colleague do the parallel parking, I realized I know very little. The food itself was very elaborate but nothing I could cherish. They did not have a single vegetarian item in the menu. My colleague was kind enough to help me out in ordering the food. I ended up ordering a combination of 3 appetizers for my dinner since those were the only vegetarian items on the menu. We socialized a lot and ate little before we left around 12.15AM. I took a cab back to my hotel and reached the hotel around 1AM. It was one long day. I was happy that it was a weekend ahead.
1 Comments:
At Wednesday, November 17, 2004,
Manoj | മനോജ് said…
Thanks for blogging this :)
Being a vegetarian, finding some good food has become one of the most challenging things during my trips as well. In the US at least we have chain restaurants (and delis) that I am familiar with.
We traveled to Mexico recently and we managed to take everything, including groceries and water with us, and thus managed to still have good food. For a lot of people, a trip to Mexico would mean great seafood for a very reasonable price, but for us we would have to be satisfied with whatever little we can cook.
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