Right, it begins

So im back in the fabulously scented city of Dehli! having literally only just arrived from the airport not long ago i dont have too much to write about the actual country, no particularly extreme events so far... but my only exposure to India so far this time round has been the journey throught the traffic in the taxi. So with not much to write about on the Dehli as a city - lets start with the journey.

i apologise in advanced for the inevitable negativity of what im about to write - today HAS been fairly enjoyable but i enjoy discussing the more... fun aspects of the trip.

train journey up was largely uneventful - the most exitement me and dad had was when he showed me (with great pride) the only magic trick he knows - which admitidley it took me 2 viewings to figure out and 1 more to clarrify. also we played a couple of games of speed - and it appears young muscles will always conquer older ones.

then we took the tube - i dont like the tube.

Heathrow Airport = Death - its actually been proven. they did a test the other week....

So we arrive at Heathrow at about 6ish but for some bizarre reason they were only letting people through to the actual terminal place like 2 hours before the flight is due to leave. so me and daddy have a couple of hours to bum around - we drop our luggage in the check in as soon as we could and try and figure out what we could do... we sat outside for a bit... then we were too cold so we went in again.

the problem was all the good stuff was behind the barrier which we werent allowed to pass for another 2 hours.

i found a WH Smiths and bought a nerd magazine and a killer sudoku book. havent actualy got round to the sudoku yet and i feel largely disappointed with the nintendo magazine.

i guess im just not as much of a nerd as i used to be

BUT I DID GET A FREE KIRBY FIGURE!!!

ok maybe i am...

airport food was death too - what kind of restaurant doesnt have forks!!??

hmm...

after having got through the barrier we just had to bum around mre shops... neither me or dad got searched at security which has to be a first... dad always gets searched! and i was really proudthe first time i got searched last time we can - made me feel a bit more manly...

eventually we get the boarding/gate information half an hour late or so and we cue up for the plane

so the plane journey was overally quite nice! felt well looked after, comfortable, entertainment was good, watched doctor who, couple of flight of the conchords episodes.. family guy... transformers the movie... wrote in my diary alot... all good.

but the food we all agree is the worst we've ever experienced on a plane.

not even joking - dinner was painful to eat. food shouldn't ever be painful right?

breakfast in the morning wasnt too good either. not convinced the sausage had so much as 0.0001% of meat in it...

it was very white...

so then dad had a bit of a heated discussion with one of the stewardess's about the lack of imigration forms which apparently had been given to everyone. but somehow we had been missed - and i was suprised that it was only us that was missed...

so i dont think that stewardess liked us very much.. after we arrived in dehli she walked past and i gave her a friendly smile - she returned with the coldest glare ever. WHAT DID I DO? ITS DAD WHO YOU DONT LIKE!!

heh...

so we arrived in dehli and after a brief mystery to be solved as to the location of the toilets we'd grabbed an official taxi and were on our way through the chaos that is the streets of dehli.

its like a fairground ride :) sept it doesnt ever stop. and there are less rules. and more monkeys. and more cows. and more elephants.

ok no elephants yet - but you wait!!!

so im at the hotel now and my hour is about up so im gonna go up to the hotel room now and see if shaaktimaan is on t.v

He is my favourite Indian Superhero!

love!

nick