Tamil friends I met in Dresden!

No doubt they were so kind and helping a lot not only me all guests. What do you except from Tamil people? :-)


Okay. Here I am would love to introduce "Sankar" and "Tamil". They accompanied me in the tour as well. Had a very pleasant time!

And specially "Tamil" reminds me my Nephew Jeeva!

We had good time in conference dinner too!

Also I have to mention that I got a "FREE DINNER". It was at right time I got the dinner invitation. While I was  very desperate to have spicy food, Sankar prepared very delicious typical tamil food! You had to be there to enjoy the pleasure!

It was great to meet you guys and மிக்க நன்றி!

For chocolate lovers!

Being in Germany and not buying chocolate then I would be an Idiot :-). So I happened to meet a nice English gentleman describing about his company and offered a lot of free chocolates :-).

and he showed me the cocoa pod and beans.

Though I am a chocolate lover I was not aware of the fruit and seed.


Hints from wikipedia data:

(A cocoa pod (fruit) has a rough and leathery rind about 3 cm (1.2 in) thick (this varies with the origin and variety of pod). It is filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called 'baba de cacao' in South America) enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and white to a pale lavender color. While seeds are usually white, they become violet or reddish brown during the drying process. 

Even though I am not a fan of white chocolate, but the following information is informative!

(The exception is rare^[3]varieties of white cacao, in which the seeds remain white.^[4][5] Historically, white cacao was cultivated by the Rama people of Nicaragua.)

Are you tempted to have chocolate?!? I do! 

Good to be back in Germany for a week :-)

 This is the main station in Dresden. First photo of my visit.

When I arrived I was not able to capture a full view of the Hbf (Hauptbahnhof). Then as usual i get what i want :-), and it was a surprise invitation to my friend´s place and I got this lovely view.

There you go...

and those who missed to see me, here I am.

I will post few interesting pictures asap... see you soon then!