Friday evening, Ivy was informed that she has been transferred to Gulbarga with immediate effect, and was to report there the next day. Gulbarga is a small town in North Karnataka that borders the states of Maharashtra and Telangana. Since Gulbarga does not have an airport, it was not possible for Ivy to report there on Saturday. And so she spent Saturday informing all and sundry about her inability to report on Saturday.
We found that the closest airport was Hyderabad and it was a 5-hour road trip from there. Or a 10-hour train journey. We chose the train journey. I hadn’t traveled in an outstation train in around 20+ years and was kind of looking forward to the journey.
What turned out to be an amazing experience started with the booking. The online booking for the Indian Railways happens at www.irctc.co.in. And ironically it’s the “Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited. It’s an amazing website that compares extremely well with most of the travel websites, including the airlines. It has a feature that predicts the probability of a wait listed ticked being confirmed, among several awesome features. We managed to book tickets for Sunday and were on our way.
The train journey was comfortable and uneventful. The train was on time and we arrived Gulbarga at 6 a.m. The station had a working escalator and Gulbarga was already feeling good. We checked into the Citrus, a small boutique hotel located inside a Mall, a Gold Mall.
While Ivy went to report to work, I walked around the town. It was nice and had its own uniqueness. I came across several gardens, a science center, a museum and finally a group of huge beautiful structures that resembled several Taj Mahal’s. I had never seen so many beautiful buildings together.
And when I got there, I realized, that this was Ivy’s new workplace. The ESIC hospital complex.
We found that the closest airport was Hyderabad and it was a 5-hour road trip from there. Or a 10-hour train journey. We chose the train journey. I hadn’t traveled in an outstation train in around 20+ years and was kind of looking forward to the journey.
What turned out to be an amazing experience started with the booking. The online booking for the Indian Railways happens at www.irctc.co.in. And ironically it’s the “Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited. It’s an amazing website that compares extremely well with most of the travel websites, including the airlines. It has a feature that predicts the probability of a wait listed ticked being confirmed, among several awesome features. We managed to book tickets for Sunday and were on our way.
The train journey was comfortable and uneventful. The train was on time and we arrived Gulbarga at 6 a.m. The station had a working escalator and Gulbarga was already feeling good. We checked into the Citrus, a small boutique hotel located inside a Mall, a Gold Mall.
While Ivy went to report to work, I walked around the town. It was nice and had its own uniqueness. I came across several gardens, a science center, a museum and finally a group of huge beautiful structures that resembled several Taj Mahal’s. I had never seen so many beautiful buildings together.
And when I got there, I realized, that this was Ivy’s new workplace. The ESIC hospital complex.
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