From India to the Austrian alps

Traveling in general is about contrasts. Some are smaller, some are large, as large as the Austrian alps. I ended my India trip in Delhi. I gladly returned back to Delhi after my trip to Kerala, although there, too, I had made good friends in the end and left on a positive note after a fun weekend. Coming back to Delhi so was like greeting an old friend. I have gotten to know the city well enough now to know my way around, pick favorite spots and restaurants and embrace all sides with the smells, the noise, the people and perhaps also a touch of Western luxury in form of a movie theater inside the air conditioned mall. I was excited to be back and spent my last day sight seeing, exploring Lodi park. The heat was overwhelming, sticky. Towards the evening I cruised around Saragini market to fetch the last of my presents for friends and family. I felt happiness inside my tummy to leave. I was analyzing if my feeling came from being done with India in general and came to the conclusion that my trip was simply ending and my excitement was simply about the next beginning. In conclusion I would like to say that I will be back to see my old friend Delhi some day and also to explore the North of India more next time. As Arnold would say: I'll be back.
Only 24 hours later I found myself in the greenest of green, staring up against a gray giant with white tips. I went to the Austria with my family for a weekend get together. We spent the weekend in a beautiful country home with a view like no other. The surroundings of the mountains is breathtaking, the trees are in full blossom, the grass stuffed with blooming wild flowers, the birds are wildly arguing and the cow bells sounding from far away on the grassy fields. This is anyone nature loving heaven, untouched and pure. Coming from dusty, gray, hot, polluted Delhi this is the spa treatment for my lungs and a complete visual contrast in front of my eyes. Can you imagine? We laid in the grass, played ball, cooked together and created harmony with each other in a way I did not know we were able to as a family. I took deep inhales with the realization of how fortunate we are in the West, how wealthy on nature resources, how very wealthy in our middle class rich lives, how very very lucky to be born here.