Being a caravan owner has, in no way, diminished our sense of adventure and wanderlust; it just provides us with opportunities for more lovely holidays. As we stayed in Europe last year, this year we felt we were due a more exotic holiday, so off we went to one of our favourite countries ...
... the huge flag, which was flying in Connaught Place, will hopefully tell you that we've been to India. It was Gio's first trip, Yorkie's second and my third (George speaking). I'm beginning to feel quite a veteran.
We flew into Delhi at breakfast time. We might have arrived early in the day but it was already very hot. Fortunately we had rooms ready for us in the lovely air conditioned oasis that the Florence Inn is.
It didn't take us long to recover from our overnight flight and to want to go out and brave the 'feels like 44 degrees' heat to explore. We couldn't afford to waste any time as we were leaving Delhi the next day.
You could be forgiven if you think we were in London, when you see our next photo ...
... as it does look like I'm travelling on the underground. I was however, on the rather more modern Delhi metro which travels on stilts, overground, rather than underground. It was very easy to use, clean, cool, cheap and not too crowded. Perhaps the fact it was a Sunday helped.
The most sensible thing to do would have been to stay on the metro all day, but being curious bears we surfaced at Connaught Place. This is where we saw the huge Indian flag flying. We knew it was big and have just found out it is 60 feet wide and 90 feet long, and it flies at the top of a 207 foot mast in Central Park. That's big!
We strolled round Central Park, took in the Lutyen's architecture and marvelled at the fact that we were looking at the fourth most expensive office accommodation in the world. We preferred the official name of Rajiv Chowk as it sounds a lot more Indian.
We gathered that Delhi doesn't get too many bear tourists as everyone wanted to talk to us and find out where we were from. It quickly became a bit much for us in the heat so we returned to our hotel for a bear nap and to prepare ourselves for the start of the holiday proper the next day.
Lots of love, George, Yorkie and Gio xxx
