Rich man's game

Yesterday, the gloomy dark weather in Berlin cleared up and we got to go outside and do something for a change. 12 Degree is not a great deal to an Indian but it is, if we had snow fall just a few days back.

Anke and her partner put together a nice golf schedule and a few of us from our class managed to go and get our baptism in Golf. Life was a made a little complicated by the U- Bahn strike and we had a little legging to do to go to Alexanderplatz to take a S-Bahn to Blankenburg. Myself and Aditya went together and Anke was there at the station to pick us up and drive us to the golf links. Arti and Yury also managed to get there on time regardless of their skills at being able to read signs at a station (they get the drift :)) and was joined by Adrian in his "original" mini

Golf Resort Berlin Pankow (http://www.golf-resort-berlin-pankow.de/) is a nice place, with a cute club house and being not so crowded. The deal was not expensive, managable on student's budget - of course you cannot do this every weekend.

Anke had arranged for a 1 hour training session and the basics of the irons and the swings were taught. After this, we knocked the balls around and I think I had got a hang of "this thing". Of course, having come from a background of playing cricket, it will take some time before I learn how not to "put the weight behind the drive" or "move the foot to the pitch of the ball" or the "follow through". For those who are not familiar with cricket, you can imagine the player as if he were walking through while playing a putt. Of course, this is not an easy imagination but who said Cricket was easy (Was that Ambar who tried to explain cricket to Casey?) For those familiar with cricket, it is like Dhoni pulling the ball from outside the off stump and hitting it over long on without moving his feet.

If the above made no sense to you, let me summarize - I have some way to go before I can think of challenging Tiger Woods.

After about 3 hours and various muscles aching, we decided to return back and relax for the evening. Adrian had more spirit and continued. We got to Hachescher Markt and stopped to have a very late Lunch at the "Sixties" - Wonderful Enchilidas!!!

I was poofed by the time I reached home and hit the bed immediately.

I am ready for the next week.

Note: The pictures: Aditya taking a swing... Myself, Arti and Yury with the course in the background