Welcome to India, home of the Maharajas’, tuk-tuks and more traffic at midnight than in London at midday. This is the start of Dave and Annette’s tour of bits of India.
The flight out from the UK was surprisingly okay, made all the more passable by the film ‘Yesterday’ about a world with no Beatles, ‘Downsizing’ with a 5 inch Brad Pitt and mini-magnums half way through the journey. We arrived at Delhi airport around 11.30pm, battled our way through the joys of immigration and out in to the brave new world.
Delhi airport is the first place I’ve been to where it takes the nationals three times longer to get through immigration that it does foreigners. As ever though, there were the sweet, welcoming and smiley faces of immigration to enjoy first. There must be an international baccalaureate on how to look grumpy and disinterested for all these international ambassadors.
The airport is to Delhi as Gatwick is to London so we had a forty minute drive into city. There were five lanes official lanes of traffic on our side of the road that were chock a block with drivers turning them into seven or eight lanes whenever they got the chance. That’s at 1am. Bonkers.
Dave and Annette in India and Nepal 