A brush with Delhi
16Feb2009 Filed under: India By James, location: Delhi
Wow, this place is chaotic. We arrived into Delhi airport at 4am this morning, the entire city was covered in thick fog, so thick even the driver looked nervous. After a white knuckle ride into the centre (during which I’m sure the driver kept falling asleep) we arrived at our fifth-floor guest house. We’ve been for a stroll around the town of a million car horns, where we’ve been harassed by countless ricksaw drivers, chatted with scores of locals who just love to fire questions at you and been ushered into one phony tourist office where they tried to re-book our train tickets to Goa. We battled with the metro to go to the Red Fort, only to discover half of Delhi is shut on Mondays. Other than that all is good, if a little smelly. Our initial encounter with Delhi is brief, for tomorrow we leave for Goa on the Rajastan Express.
hee-j'E'ong
February 17th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
shame that things were shut on Mondays in Delhi!! can’t wait to read about Goa! Keep up the good work! ;-)
you have some lovely pictures from Doha-made it all looks much more interesting than it is!
btw, check the spelling in my name! enjoy the rest of your trip~ & was nice having you guys over!
uncle Denis
February 19th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Hi James, Have today finished reading about the seige of Delhi in 1842? there’s a lot of BRITISH blood on them there streets.
depressing or what!!!!!!
I do envy you walking those streets.
uncle Denis
uncle Denis
February 19th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Please James don’t put a hand on the hips for a photo!!!!
Denis
James
February 20th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Thanks for the photo tip Unc :)
Currently reading about India’s history, only got up to 10th century so far, a little further to go until the Brits started meddling….
Julie Ivanov
February 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hi Worldwide Travellers. How I envy you! Take care of yourselves, thinking of you. Lots of love – Grandma, in Bradford. xxxx
janice and daniel
March 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
hi how r u jeannie? photos looking good.love to go to goa.snowing here wish we were there.