Delhi: 1st March.

Thursday the first of March, at about 7am, we arrived at Delhi airport greeted by our taxi driver, holding a fetching board- Ms Jessica Smith and Mr Armello Oween-Navet! Anyhow, our journey to the Goodtimes hotel was the first of our death-defying road experiences, with Jess commenting "everything is just so unfamiliar here"! After catching up on some much-needed sleep, and realising that electricity occasionally decides to cut out, we set out on our mission to get something to eat, and change some travellers cheques. We jumped into an autorickshaw and asked to go to Connaught Place, which according to our Lonely Planet, was the Western Business District. Somehow, we conjured up the idea that it would be full of skyscrapers-a typical downtown setting, but we couldn't have been more wrong! It was completely mad, bustling centre of new Delhi-fantastic, but not what we were expecting! First of all, we were conveniently taken to an emporium (taxi drivers often work on commission) Then thankfully we were taken to a restaurant, and then a very dodgy bank. We ended up back at our hotel with our heads spinning. After a quick nap, we popped up to the rooftop restaurant, which was lovely, and enjoyed our carefully chosen Indian dishes, to the blaring of horns from below.