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In less than two weeks after we, ever-so-enthusiastically, started the GLAadventure, the team has already clocked good figures - six international borders crossing Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Italy.

On a journey, a smartphone/tablet is always one of your best companions - whether it is for entertainment or for useful information.

Interestingly, Istanbul was the first foreign city I ever set foot on albeit briefly, while Vienna was the last European city I visited.

We spent the first day getting the war paint as it were put on the cars - the GLAadventure decals.

Jitters, excitement - it is at times like these that one truly understands the meaning of such words. The occasion was after all a big one - the flag-off of the first ever around-the-world drive from India certainly qualifies as big!

You know how you think you know it all, and not in an egotistical way either - and yet you don't? That's how we all felt - maybe more so in a combined sense - when we descended on a workshop to take us through the vehicles that will be our companions through the GLA Adventure.

We recently drove to the Indo-Tibetan border to celebrate 69 years of India's independence - over the course of which we traversed over what the Border Roads Organization proudly referred to as 'The Most Treacherous Road in the World'.

The thing I will never forget is thinking, "Is he serious?" when I first spoke to the marketing head at Mercedes-Benz India about the possibility of us using Mercedes-Benz cars for a global drive I was keen to undertake under the Auto Prime umbrella at NDTV.