Back in the same room yet again! It’s very stuffy and HOT HOT HOT! Go to the Crafts museum which is excellent with interesting stone carved windows. Wacky terracotta sculptures …different huts from different areas.
Next day visit Qutub Minar and the Lotus temple and Fab India. Have a swim for an hour which was very refreshing. Out for beers at Nirulas at night…skip dinner but lots of nuts and crisps!
On the last day we pack and check bags in then go back to the Crafts Museum which had an incredible collection of textiles. Go back to Paharganj market which feels much less overwhelming now we’ve got a bit more aclimatised to life in India. I bought lots of cushion covers.
Then swim swim most of the afternoon. Have a last meal with the two guys we’ve got to know, it was a big round table. Charlie has Portuguese steak I have chicken tikka. As we leave Steve says “Don’t let the Buggers grind you down”knowing full well what challenges I was facing in my job. I’ll always remember that.
Then swim swim most of the afternoon. Have a last meal with the two guys we’ve got to know, it was a big round table. Charlie has Portuguese steak I have chicken tikka. As we leave Steve says “Don’t let the Buggers grind you down”knowing full well what challenges I was facing in my job. I’ll always remember that.
Delhi airport was horrendous…queue for hours…no system to let people through. Nothing has changed over the past 25 years! Met an interesting Irish guy who had been away for three months – he got 1600 rupees for giving up his Swiss Air flight two days before and two days in five star hotel! But with NO money and his Visa card wouldn’t work he had to pay a rickshaw driver by going round emporiums all day! He was a supply teacher of English in London and he just chucked his job in too!
