Wednesday 6 March
We
are lying on our bed in the Hotel Delhi Aerocity after an exhausting
two flights from Jo'burg. We left last night after dinner and Alex drove
us to the airport, the Oliver Tambo Jo'burg one and not all the way to
Lanseria, Moira got it right this time. I keep waiting for something to
go wrong but it has continued to go smoothly. No problems with our
luggage plenty of weight to spare and they took more than one bag into
the hold despite Alex frightening us by saying all airlines are
restricting passengers to one piece of luggage. The first part of our
journey was to Dubai where we had an hour and a half to transfer to the
Delhi flight. We were both very tired not having slept very well but the
walk through the Dubai air terminal revived us. It was only two and a
half hour flight then to Delhi. The Delhi airport is new, built for the
Commonwealth Games about three years ago. It was a pleasant surprise
from the chaos we experience when we were here five years ago at the old
one. This time it was quiet, airy and modern. Everything work smoothly
from a quick passage through immigration control to only a few minutes
wait to collect our baggage from the carousel. Outside a driver was
waiting to whisk us to the hotel which was just outside the air
terminal. The hotel was all right and we had a large comfortable en
suite room.
As
soon as our bags were dropped In the room we lay down on the bed for a
rest. It had been a very tiring journey with very little sleep. Later
Moira went down to reception and arranged for a car to take us to the
airport in the morning for our flight to Katmandu. While she was doing
that the manager obligingly booked trains for when we come back. The
trip we are taking will be to the old Raj mountain settlement at Shimla
instead of spending our last week in Delhi.
For dinner we booked a pizza from room service and had an earlier night.
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