Delhi - having a private driver rocks!

So we flew back 2 Delhi from Jodhpur. It was a very quick flight - not even an hour

Stayed at a really nice hotel Yatri House. Really nice and taken care of. Not to be confused with a Yatri palace - located in the middle of the Paharganj - the HORRIBLE main bazaar - same location as we ended up the 1st night in India with Dorotka. That Yatri Palace was a copy of our one, which was listed in the Lonely Planet. We know this, as were taken there first - by an official (government) cab driver who had no clue where he was supposed to go. It got quite scary have to say when, we were in that cab in the middle of the extremely busy market, where everybody (cab driver, ppl who directed him there etc) were shouting for us to get out of the cab and go 2 that hotel. But I knew our one was supposed to b west of the Paharganj (thank God I had been there before so I recognized it!) - and we insisted on going to look further for Yatri HOUSE - which the cab driver agreed to do after he went & checked himself it was Yatri PALACE where he brought us to.

Eventually it took us over 1.5h (150% of the flight duration!) to get to the hotel - half of the time going in circles, while the driver kept on asking ppl where to go... nicccceee (that's a

Lesson learned:
where available, to go to the hotel from the airport/station, ALWAYS take hotel pickups instead of a regular taxi in India

We had actually booked one, 3 times more expensive than the taxi - but since we flew in an hour earlier than planned, we naively thought it would b faster by taxi...).

ANYWAY! We finally got there and were VERY happy to see a very clean and nice place!

and next day (THANKS to ABHI - he keeps saving me!, we are extremely grateful!) we had a driver arranged. He came pick us up by an air-conditioned car (thank god for AC!) at 10am. Btw, if anyone is interested, that total LUXURY of a private driver and a nice car, at our disposal for the whole day was only 1000 rs inclusive a nice tip 4 the driver - which is about 17eur... for the 3 of us together . I love India [THANK YOU ABHI!]

We drove around the city for the whole day - 9h to be specific. We did all the sights (the Fort, Humayun's tomb, Ghandi's memorial/grave - Raj Ghat, the lotus temple etc). At the end of the day we went 2 the Dilli Haat again (I had been there with Dorotka and Abhi before) - where I went totally NUTS and bought over a kilogram (!YES, 1kg) of jewellery... all nice & handmade - from camel bone, from coconut shells, from wood etc. Such nice things u rarely find back home - and if so, they're expensive - and India is a paradise for shopping . Poor Menno and Chris... they totally lost hope while i was plundering more and more of the jewellery stalls - they were sitting on the ground, looking like 2 beaten puppies and nicely asking me to hurry up shopping [SORRY BOYS I REALLY TRIED to do that ASAP]

Then we went 4 a great dinner with Abhi - at Connaught place. it was really nice, great food and drinks (haha, first time alcohol 4 Marta since a VEEEERY long time - in Rajasthan they only had beer which i don't like - and even that they were not allowed to openly sell - only ''undercover'' - writing on our bills ''big Cola'' instead of beer )

Anyway... it was a VERY NICE day!

Stayed for 2 nights at the Yatri house - and off 2 Mumbai from here

- Delhi