Final Night in Delhi
I had a very enjoyable final night in Delhi – went out to dinner (on Valentine’s Day) with a couple of friends who happened to be in Delhi on their honeymoon.
Personally sharing a first married Valentine’s Day with me isn’t what I call a honeymoon, but glad they did as it was a nice end to my brief stay in India.
We met at the hotel bar and tried to pick a good restaurant out of the Lonely Planet book, but then one of the staff suggestd we just walk 10 – 15 minutes down the road to a local market and mall which has some good restaurants.
So we did. Now this proved to be somewhat dangerous as we had to cross several busy intersections. They have no lights and the pedesterian crossings are just to help them with their aim, I am sure. We finally just did a seris of sprints when there was a brief gap in the traffic. Had some bloody close calls.
When we got there, I discovered prices in on clothing store was around 10% of that in the hotel. So Maggie helped me buy some very nice women’s items (not not for me personally, for a friend) and we all ended up buying a few things. And how is this for service – they altered Danyl’s trousers in 20 minutes and delivered them to him at the restaurant we were at – and no extra charge.
We were on an open air balcony which was nice as the evening was pleasant, and had pizza and pasta. After a week of curry I was glad for Italian.
Got back around 10 pm and had to be up at 5.30 am for the flight, so I left the honeymooners (who are staying on for severla more weeks) and crashed. Slept through the alarm but the hotel woke me up in person and made the flight. Am now in Singapore.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:12 am
DPF:
You felt the need to clarify this point? We live in changing times
February 16th, 2008 at 1:16 am
“And how is this for service – they altered Danyl’s trousers in 20 minutes and delivered them to him at the restaurant we were at – and no extra charge.”
its not actually service but dirt cheap wage rates.
Perhaps if we could get rid of unions we could push our wage rates down that low too.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Wait for Trotter or theStandard to try and make something of it….
LOL.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Wooh I feel another photo-shop coming on!
February 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Nah, I want to know who the friend was. And whether you also managed to send her flowers on Valentine’s day. Seems to me that DPF has been keeping something from his readers.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am
No PaulL he has dropped the odd hint -also remember the bed purchase? No man buys a kick-ass bed just to watch tv in it…
February 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Lee C:
Sorry, we’re still in the same parliamentary term as Panty Slut Boy’s *cough* involuntary revelations, so this conjures up all the wrong visuals for me!
February 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
OFF TOPIC: Anyone else finding that Sky has been on “rain fade” mode for a very long time? Any rumours about their satcom?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Nice picture on stuff.co.nz Dave!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/0a6160.html?source=nav
February 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Good God where did they get that from. I can’t even recall when they took it.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
DPF:
Slightly off-topic, but consistent with your theme of back to NZ…
Are you going to be updating all the demerits table to reflect those “awarded” while you were away?
February 17th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
NPOG, nonsense. It was excellent service David got. I have had exactly the same service whenever I have been in Delhi or anywhere in India no matter how much I pay for it.
Although I would *love* to knock out a few of our unions