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P S Balakrishnan
Sep 9, 2015, 10:50 PM
"You guys must be a bit crazy to do something like this" - that was current Formula One champion and Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 driver, Lewis Hamilton's, first reaction as I explained the GLAadventure.
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P S Balakrishnan | Sep 9, 2015Border Crossings: A Test of One's PatienceIn 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.1 min read
P S Balakrishnan | Sep 8, 2015Top 5 Smartphone Apps to Travel BetterOn a journey, a smartphone/tablet is always one of your best companions - whether it is for entertainment or for useful information.1 min read
P S Balakrishnan | Sep 5, 2015Circle of Life: Istanbul to ViennaInterestingly, Istanbul was the first foreign city I ever set foot on albeit briefly, while Vienna was the last European city I visited.1 min read
Dhruv Behl | Sep 9, 2015An Exciting Adventure AheadWe spent the first day getting the war paint as it were put on the cars - the GLAadventure decals.1 min read
Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Sep 5, 2015Great OverLand Adventure: Flag-Off at Mercedes-Benz Plant in Chakan, PuneJitters, 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!1 min read
Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Sep 5, 2015Great OverLand Adventure: The GroundworkYou 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.1 min read
Dhruv Behl | Sep 5, 2015Our Hero - the Mercedes-Benz GLAWe 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'.1 min read
Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Sep 5, 2015Great OverLand Adventure: How It Came To BeThe 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.1 min read
