Left the lovely home stay – the mother gave me a big hug and said “come back with your children”. Got an auto to the station and caught our last Indian train! It was 30 minutes delayed making our total delay time over 13 train journeys (equal to a week of travel) 35 minutes!
Got a taxi transfer to our hotel north of Pahar Ganj on a dusty, busy side street. Hotel is relatively nice - a typical Indian style hotel. Delhi seems quite modern it has pavements and the like.
Took an auto to Khan market which is weird its in an okish area but then has shops like in Covent garden. Will got measured for a suit (got a few weddings to go to!) and parted with some cash and now we hope it will turn out ok! Had some food in the turtle cafe – a bookshop cafe that serves nice western style cafe food.
Tried to get a metro home but struggled to get back from the station (we went to the wrong one for a start) plus no one’s heard of our hotel so trying to get an auto or cycle rickshaw was hard and we tried walking but went the wrong way. Finally got a cycle rickshaw who we then had an argument with over the agreed price.
Finally got home! The hotel seem very keen to sell us beer - we had a couple of Kingfishers (extra strong!) which we felt we deserved after the stress of getting home.
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