Docile dogs

I notice large numbers of dogs in the streets whenever we’re out: They’re so docile. Most of the time, they’re simply asleep on their side. They seem to ignore you & most people ignore them.

Pedestrian monkeys

We saw our first pack of monkeys wandering the streets today: we were heading to the Mughal Gardens (at the Presidential Palace grounds). Tania doesn’t particularly like them so we managed to give them a wide berth: even walking in the middle of the road at one point.

That’s okay...they were too busy foraging for food to care about us.

An observation on electricity poles

In the same taxi ride home from the shopping mall, I happened to glance up at a power pole. It looked like any normal power pole with a transformer at the top: the only difference was the 20 million lines running out of it going in all directions. A lot of those cables running out of the transformer looked decidedly unsafe & (probably) illegal.

I’m not sure what an Australian sparkie would say but I can guess...

The Kamikaze Tuk-Tuk driver

So..we’re in a taxi on our way home from the Sarket Shopping Mall (shopping malls make a good break from the chaos that is Delhi) & we’re approaching a set of traffic lights that are changing to red. As we slow down & the traffic with the green light starts creeping across the intersection, we hear the sounds of a tuk-tuk (to our left) at full revs. It then barrels past us into the mass of traffic streaming across the intersection: he either couldn’t be bothered stopping or couldn’t stop.

We watch , amazed, as he weaves his way through the traffic...not hitting anyone.

The things you see !!

The menagerie of street life that is Delhi

Well...I can safely say that I have now seen all forms of animal on the streets of Delhi: including peacocks (at the High Commission, they’re all called Andrew), camels & elephants

Some news on apartment

Well...we have some news about the apartment. The lease has been signed & we’ll (hopefully) be moving in next weekend. All our stuff from OZ probably won’t be here for another month so the apartment will be somewhat bare until then.

It has four bedrooms with four bathrooms & five toilets: plenty of toilets for when all the visitors come down with Delhi belly.

The photos below show the apartment as it currently looks (very bare) but don't worry...we're working on it & it's going to be amazing !!

This is the family room.

This will be the office space & study.

This wil be our room.

This is the back guest room

Here's the kitchen (sans oven...for the moment)

Here's the entrance hallyway.

Here's the lounge room

Sorry for a lack of posts

Hiya folks....sorry for not posting lately. I've been quite sick this last week (still some lingering affects that you really don't want to know about).