On the streets of Delhi

A typical scene just around the corner from Chandni Chowk market - everyone is busy busy. There's a lot of colour and noise, and here the signs are all in Hindi but many stalls and shop and road signs are in English.
I have to add that Blogger and iPad are not compatible, whether using Chrome, Google or Safari: pictures take ages to cloud (new verb?!) over and then won't go in the right place - where's a media student when you need one...

Welcome to New Delhi

Delhi is hot, hot, hot! At 8am it's already 30 degrees, but it is also a really green city - snapped from our taxi window


From the airport to our first port of call, the Paharganj area of the city, there was a huge protected deciduous forested area enclosed by ornate green metal railings.



Paharganj is a busy area where hotels, businesses and homes collide with each other. The traffic is also manic, road markings count for nothing and the horn is definitely king, although it used (as far as I can make out) just to say "I am here" rather than to hassle the unsuspecting tourist to get a move on.

The Hotel Krishna is our little luxury first hotel with air con, wi-fi and a marble staircase that at wouldn't be out of place in a stately home. We look out over Delhi rooftops and into other people's lives, such is the nature of this vast city. Some people don't have a lot but a smile is free and goes a long way, and it must be a wonderful place if your cows can roam free!

Three days to go!

Welcome to our travel blog! It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are many great places in this world and we would like to explore some of them. We leave in three days for New Delhi and are hopefully travelling around all of South-East Asia and the antipodes for a year. We'd like to share our experiences with our family and friends but can't promise that we'll reply to any comments! There'll be lots of moving images, photos and commentary - enjoy.