About ReiseYatra



It wasn't meant to be – if you ask Wolfgang about his first assignment in India, he will tell you it lasted a year and six days, and he couldn't wait to get back home. Pratibha moved on from her first job in time to skip a secondment to Frankfurt, the initial trips had killed her appetite for the place. And yet here we are, 15 years later, living life together and one region at a time.

Reise is German for a journey; a tip of the hat to a land of tenacious travellers. Germany was Pratibha's first destination abroad, short business trips eventually leading to a move to Frankfurt in 2001. Business related travel was the catalyst to our wanderlust and, between us, we've been fortunate to spend time living and working in the USA, C Europe (Zurich, Frankfurt, and Munich), Asia (Singapore and India) and the U.K (London). Work assignments aside, 6 weeks of annual vacation served to cement the bond with travel!

Yatra is the Indian equivalent, an acknowledgement of our Indian connection and the passport Pratibha uses to get around (not always easy collecting those visas). Living currently in southern India (our third country and fourth city in six years), we have a few adventures and road trips behind us while planning a million more...

We are slow travellers (we don't do vacations, we just move!) and after a few years of cathedrals, museums, mosques, temples, towers, palaces and everything else that costs an entrance fee, we are more likely to go for a long lunch these days rather than hunt down the last tourist attraction in town. We now live in Mysore and will be writing mainly about travel and culture in India, especially the south, but every now and then we hope to bring in something different. Our friends think we are mad to put our lives on the web  oh well, it's only a portion of it and frankly, it's fun. So, we will blog away as long as there are tales and places to share, and maybe you will want to come back, read, tell us what you think?

ReiseYatra is a downtime pleasure, GloBus Research - Messner Consulting & Training Pvt. Ltd. is our day (and night) job. We help companies address strategic and operational challenges in intercultural collaboration, operational risk and change management. More information on www.globusresearch.com.

Thanks for reading this far. Do you want to drop us a line? Contact us at pratibha(dot)messner(at)gmail(dot)com or wolfgang(dot)messner(at)gmail(dot)com.




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