Again I am doing "catchup". We had a productive and pleasant time in Bardenweiler and as planned dropped the truck in Gaggenau on Friday morning. Spent Friday night in the Gernsbach Stadt Hotel (we have been there so often now that they recognized us) and Saturday trained to Frankfurt for our overnight flight to Delhi, India.

Yesterday Saturday we spent sleeping and adjusting our internal clock to Indian time.

Believe it or not we are joining a tour tomorrow for a 12 day introduction to India and Nepal and then will come back to Delhi for a few days by ourselves in an apartment organized through AirBNB. In order to make our luggage a bit lighter we have organized with the apartment owner to leave some stuff with him while on the tour, so this morning we took a taxi to Hauz Kaus village and after a bit of a search found the apartment and deposited our excess luggage. It would be accurate to say that the Hauz Kaus village area looks "interesting", certainly different to the area around Le Meridian Hotel where we are currently isolated.

From the village we got the taxi to drop us off at on of the many markets in the city so that we could just "look around". But looking around turned into buying when Nina spotted a tailor and organized for them to make her a pair of slacks.

The slacks are a long story. Nina bought them at a street stall in China 6 years ago and has worn them almost to death. She has searched high and low in many cities for their replacement but again without success, so this is the next plan for their replacement - maybe in India get a pair made.

First impressions of Delhi. Air pollution seems to be a problem as even yesterday (Sunday) there was a thick haze where ever one looked. There is a lot of garbage/trash around. Many parked cars have a thick layer of dust covering them (so maybe the haze is dust ?). The street system around the hotel and the center of New Delhi is impressive, wide avenues, with big "round abouts" (called rotaries locally) have well established trees and plants. We have not seen the "crush of people" yet that we expected but have not yet been many places. Similarly so far the traffic seems relatively sane.