Public Transportation in Delhi

Poha for breakfast 

Wonder what the first 58 rules are, love #63 

Inside the Auto-Rickshaw

Thali plate, Spinach and Lentils in Background

I am beginning to think there is a formula for Jet Lag.

JL= TZ x A. TZ = Times Zones Crossed and A = Age.

It has really been hard to get a good nights sleep. 

At breakfast I asked the chef he would make Poha for me. He obliged. Poha is a working persons breakfast food. It is made from flattened rice, spices and nuts. There are many variations. I love it! After breakfast, we used public transportation, taking the new subway from our hotel (there is a stop nearby). It is clean, fast and efficient. The cost to travel to Khan Market was 10 rupees (about 15 cents)! All hand carried items go through an airport like scanner and everyone is scanned upon entrance. Security is tight but unobtrusive. Be sure to check out security rule 63, you would only see that in India!

Khan Market is a series of shops, restaurants, bars, etc. it is an area of alleys and streets with shops, not a gigantic single building. There is an exceptional bookstore - Circle Books. They are associated with the Jaipur Literary Festival and feature books by many of the attending authors. We purchased a few books. 

We took an auto-rickshaw back to the Imperial.  These three-wheeled vehicles are ubiquitous weaving through traffic carrying passengers crammed into its single bench like seat. It is open air, and on a relatively light traffic Sunday, fun to use. 

When we returned to the hotel I had a massage while Cathy had her hair washed. We read for a while and I finished Michael Wolf’s book on Trump: Fire and Fury. God I hope we can get rid of him before he destroys the planet!

We then packed for our flight tomorrow morning to Udaipur. We had drinks at the bar. We then ate at the excellent Indian Restaurant in the hotel: Daniell’s. On a previous visit to India we met a retired British Army officer who was a descendant of William and his nephew Thomas Daniell. They were artists who in the 1780's travelled through India painting a history of India at that time. One of their most famous paintings of the Jantar Mantar Observatory was painted from the exact spot where this restaurant is situated. The Imperial has many of their paintings on its walls. Having met their descendant makes the experience of viewing the paintings all the more vivid. 

Jantar Mantas Observatory Painted by the Danill's

We each had a Thali plate - thali plates are round metal plates where all the food is served at once, each plate a complete meal, there are no serving dishes. Cathy had vegetarian, I had non-vegetarian. Both thali plates had one serving in particular that we loved, fried spinach with lentils and spices. It was fabulous. We will look for that on menu's as we travel through India.

We returned to our room where I fitfully slept.