Okay so the end of last week was hard work. Nobody really wanted to be in the office and I was clock watching from about 16:00 every day. Friday arrived and spot on 18:00 Chris and I headed for a local bar glad to put the week behind us. Vikram and Sandra joined us an hour or so later and we headed for a nearby restaurant for dinner. We finished up about 23:30 and headed for home having made plans to tour old Delhi Saturday.

Chris and Sandra picked me up at 11:30 and we headed off for old New Delhi. We arrived about an hour later and headed into the throng of people making our way towards

Jama Masjid,

the largest mosque in India. Unfortunately it was near to prayer time and was closing to tourists so we opted to come back later heading of towards

Chandni Chowk

, by way of

Chatta Chowk

(covered bazaar). Once in

Chandni Chowk

we found the

Digambara Jain Temple

. Unfortunately camera’s are not allowed so I can’t show you just how beautiful it was, but it really was.

After looking around we were all feeling hungry and Sandra hadn’t experienced Karims, so we walked back via

Jama Masjid

, cutting through the main courtyard and found Karims without a problem. After butter chicken, mutton rice, lamb kebab’s, and butter narn we headed back to

Jama Masjid

for a proper look around. When we finished we called for the car and sat on steps of

Jama Masjid

watching life go by. It’s complete chaos and personally I couldn’t take it for too long, but it was very interesting watching life go by.

We then headed for

Humayun’s Tomb

, described in the Lonely Planet guide as a “must see tomb”. It was quite remarkable and the symmetry, especially of the water features, is amazing to see. The effort put into these places is admirable but I can’t help but wonder if they had spent the money on the country India might be a lot further advanced than it is.

We were all knackered after the visit to

Humayun’s Tomb

so we headed back to Gurgaon, via the off-license at the Galleria Mall for beer and snacks. Chris and Sandra hadn’t seen my apartment and a review of some of the Wii games I had brought back with me after visiting the UK. Sandra and Chris headed for home about an hour later and I spent the evening chilling out in front of the TV quite happy that I had done something with the day. Today I am taking it easy. The tailor is coming round between 15:00-16:00 to do the first fitting of my suit and then I am off to do some shopping and get my photo’s taken for my registration tomorrow morning. Then I fully intend to lounge about and chill out.