Delhi

I am now in Delhi, enjoying the hospitality of Mark, with whom I attended primary school.

Lovely place

If a little overdone in places like the power supply for the 2  bedroom house

Went to the Indira Gandhi Museum, and to the Mahatma Gandhi Smriti,  which are both sited where they were respectively assassinated.  pics from the Mahatma site

Then to Khan Market, for my coffee fix and to buy some shirts and shoes that are not to the taste of some i have asked.  it is a relatively upmarket area aimed at westerners a bit.

Then today I went into Chandni Chowk in old Delhi, and hired a Rickshaw, more about that later, but if you don’t they just keep hassling you.

Anyway on with the show

Up to the spice market first

The up on top of a building to look around

On the stairway

Views moving about

So then comes the crunch, where I get to pay him what I think it is worth for his services, at his starting point I could have hired a car and driver for 5 days, anyway get down to 500 rupees and he has done very well out of me, Mark says it should have been around 200. Hate the guilt feeling and all that they lay on you, but hey…. I’ll survive and i am not broke, nor he below

So now walking to the metro station I did not buy this

Hmm maybe it would have matched the shoes.

The train to Hauz Khaz and walked back from there passing the fellows below along the way.

Dinner tonight is at the Italian cultural center, with a Michelin star chef, fundraising for the Italian earthquake.

Another day of Delhi tomorrow, then effectively leaving the following day for Amsterdam.