Arrival
Location: Delhi, India
Local Time: Sunday, Oct 9, 2005 - 9:00am
I'm here, in Delhi. It has a strange smell to it.
The flight to Singapore was long, but not bad. Singapore Airlines has individual TVs for each passenger, so I watched 3-4 movies. I was going to watch the CSI episodes they had there, but I'd seen them both. Probably the episodes on the way home will be new to me.
In Singapore, I took the bus to the hotel the airline arranged for me, and slept. It was a very nice hotel. I woke up in the morning, had tea, checked out, and walked around in the rain, because it was raining. Found a little roofed structure in the Fort Canning Park and sat there for about an hour, napping for about half an hour in sitting position. I was a little jet lagged.
The rain stopped at some time during my nap, so I walked around Singapore for a while. Seems like a nice place. I found the theatres which are apparently known locally as the durians, after the fruit.
The flight from Singapore to Delhi was 5 hours long. I slept almost the whole way, which was alright with me. I didn't want to be tired when I arrived in Delhi as that would make it more difficult to deal with any problems that might arise. As it turns out, there were no problems.
I arrived in Delhi at 10:00pm at night. Between customs and waiting for my bag to arrive it was 11:00 before I got out of the airport. At the desk for prepaid taxies, a woman came up to me. Her name is Irma and she's from Holland. She shared a taxi with me to the YMCA where she stays each time she comes to India. She comes here 6 months of each year for the last 10 years she says. She travels a bit, but she mostly she studies Sanscrit in Varanassi.
I didn't have a reservation at the YMCA, but they had a room available, so I checked in, and tried to sleep. I didn't sleep very much. I'm still jet lagged. I'm going to try to stay up until at least 9 tonight without naps, and then I should sleep well tonight.
Local Time: Sunday, Oct 9, 2005 - 9:00am
I'm here, in Delhi. It has a strange smell to it.
The flight to Singapore was long, but not bad. Singapore Airlines has individual TVs for each passenger, so I watched 3-4 movies. I was going to watch the CSI episodes they had there, but I'd seen them both. Probably the episodes on the way home will be new to me.
In Singapore, I took the bus to the hotel the airline arranged for me, and slept. It was a very nice hotel. I woke up in the morning, had tea, checked out, and walked around in the rain, because it was raining. Found a little roofed structure in the Fort Canning Park and sat there for about an hour, napping for about half an hour in sitting position. I was a little jet lagged.
The rain stopped at some time during my nap, so I walked around Singapore for a while. Seems like a nice place. I found the theatres which are apparently known locally as the durians, after the fruit.
The flight from Singapore to Delhi was 5 hours long. I slept almost the whole way, which was alright with me. I didn't want to be tired when I arrived in Delhi as that would make it more difficult to deal with any problems that might arise. As it turns out, there were no problems.
I arrived in Delhi at 10:00pm at night. Between customs and waiting for my bag to arrive it was 11:00 before I got out of the airport. At the desk for prepaid taxies, a woman came up to me. Her name is Irma and she's from Holland. She shared a taxi with me to the YMCA where she stays each time she comes to India. She comes here 6 months of each year for the last 10 years she says. She travels a bit, but she mostly she studies Sanscrit in Varanassi.
I didn't have a reservation at the YMCA, but they had a room available, so I checked in, and tried to sleep. I didn't sleep very much. I'm still jet lagged. I'm going to try to stay up until at least 9 tonight without naps, and then I should sleep well tonight.
posted by Jaye | 9:32 AM
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