pune foreign visitors who swarmed german bakery till two years ago cannot come to terms with having lost it to a terror attack though many of them are miles away from the eatery they had once come to love as their own they still cannot help but lament over what is gone more than anything they miss the old ties that prospered over coffee and cakes and the friends who have departed forever alberto alpozzi an italian photoreporter from turin italy recollects the memories of his italian friend nadia macerini whom he lost in the blast when i was in pune i lived in koregaon park but for all good reasons i stayed in the bakery all day it was a place to meet new people and friends it was where i would eat my meals and drink i have great memories of the eatery for it was the first place i visited while in pune and found a lot of people to talk to he said when i think about the tragedy now i do not want to believe that i lost my dear friend nadia in it it happened a few days after i met her and returned to italy i had met her in another punebased eatery and before we knew we became close friends she would love to listen to me speaking in english though i am not too good at conversing in this language she was the kind of human being who was always smiling and happy he said alpozzi said that he and nadia had first decided to leave india together 15 days prior to the blast but she changed her plan and went to south india instead she later returned to pune when i heard about the blast and nadias death through a phone call from pune i did not want to believe it my mind kept running back to nadia and her smile it was heart rending i wrote to my italian friends to confirm the news hoping against hope that maybe nadia was safe but found out that she had passed away said alpozzi alpozzi didnt return to pune after the tragedy but he hopes to come back soon and see a new german bakery when i come back to pune i will surely miss german bakery which was a great place to meet people he added scott ryan who now lives in golden british columbia canada used to stay a few buildings away from the bakery in 2009 like others the bakery was his usual haunt in no time he had befriended the bakerys staff including gokul nepali the bakery waiter who succumbed in the blast it is unfortunate that german bakery is not up and running even after two years i think that there was quite a strong sentiment for it to reopen both as a sign of resilience and because it was a great place to meet friends over some good food it is disappointing that it hasnt