Spent our first day here, and I have a few points to convey.
- the 40ish aged guy in front of me on the plane threw up over the floor 10 minutes before landing. Due to its consistency it ran down around my area as we started to land. That's not cool.
- new Dreamliner plane is great!
- scam artists are everywhere. So far we have been taken to the biggest mall in Delhi (tourist shop instead), the government tourist office (lie, though full marks for changing the street name to match where it should be), and warned a lot about being followed, by friendly people who then suggest what we know to be completely wrong directions to places. It gets tiring being lied to under a friendly pretext.
- clothes are cheap.. 3 pairs of trousers, 1 skirt, 1 girl top, 1 shirt purchased so far.
- Jane is terrifyingly good when bartering.
- people try to catch pigeons. I don't want to know why.
- 2 lanes on the road is for 3 columns of traffic.
- beeping their horns must be fun here... I don't understand why people would do it otherwise.
- Qatar's Doha airport is awe inspiring.
- The film Transendance is terrible and makes no sense.
- I have neither been to the toilet or eaten yet. (Updated... Eaten)
- Jane has noted that the Indian government have approved almost everything here ( eg. "Government approved coffee shop").
- we forgot toothpaste, an alarm clock, and as yet undiscovered stuff probably.
- if you go somewhere to eat that looks nice, and you haven't researched it, you will get ripped off (£45 for 2 for dinner!!!.. To compare, our hotel is £45 for 3 nights).
- the guy who checked our passports at the airport had 2 thumbs on his right hand.
- tuktuk cars are scary. (Above)
-rickshaws are just unbelievably dangerous...so much so, that the experience doesn't seem real.
Chris
New Delhi, India.
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