Day 50 Delhi

Day 50                        Friday 14^th October 2011                    Delhi

Woken by the train waiter who delivered tea & biscuit.

About 9am we realised that the train had been stopped for longer than usual. Even though it was an express train, sometimes we had to stop to wait for another train to come through. Word then came through that there was a technical problem with the engine & we were waiting for another one.

Breakfast was served, veg cutlets or omelette with various pickles & spices, 2 pieces of bread, tea/coffee.

Finally arrived in Delhi at 2pm, 3 hours late.

We headed for

Connaught Place

which we know quite well. Hotel Palace Heights where we stayed as backpackers in 1991 (dump, bucket hot water but fantastic location)  had been renovated & was now number 5 hotel in Delhi. They only had a vacancy for tonight so we took that & went looking to find somewhere else. After rejecting a few places we went to Hotel Bright which had also been upgraded.

They could accommodate us for the nights we wanted except 18^th so we intend to go to Karnal for that night.    Karnal was where John Peach Macwhirter was stationed as a Magistrate in the 1850’s.