Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Back in the USA

Back in the USA - Wednesday 4 November 2009

Continental Flight CO 83 for 14.5 dark hours. Newark arrival, long baggage pickup, customs, re-checkin. Wait 4 hours.  Contiental 8:25 am flight to Richmond. Parking lot C, Hardee's biscuits, gas, drive back to Charlottesville.  Phone ringing as open door, meet touring Woodstock school mate Phil W and his wife Mariilyn (photo below) for lunch.  Groceries, unpacking. Rest. Making bread and supper. Back to email and TV.


Continental Flight CO 83 for 14.5 dark hours. 

Newark arrival, long baggage pickup, customs, re-checkin. 

Wait 4 hours.  

Contiental 8:25 am flight to Richmond. 

Parking lot C, Hardee's biscuits, gas, drive back to Charlottesville.  

Phone ringing as open door, meet touring Woodstock school mate Phil W and his wife Marilyn for lunch.  


Groceries, unpacking. Rest. Making bread and supper. Back to email and TV.

Last Day Cottage shopping

Last Day Cottage shopping – Tuesday 2 November 2009

[Details and more later] 


Breakfast. Packing. Tuk-tuk scamed to false Cottage Industries store.  Walk to real Central Cottage Industries Emporium. Shopping and Shopping and Café Lunch. Suitcase and shoeshines (photo below) on Janpat. Tuk Tuk back to Hotel. Relax and repack. Check out at 6. Out for Aangan dinner. Stop for beer at Spicy by Nature.  Uday ride waiting at 7:50.  To the Airport.  Checkin, but no water, and can’t take Nag Tibba staff. Waiting. Continental 14 hour flight from Delhi to Newark.

Breakfast. Still breakfast only at top restaurant – ate inside since crows swooping down on left food plates outside. Puris again cold, water not hot, eggs all cracked.

Packing.

tuk-tuk scamed to false Cottage Industries store.  

Walk to real Central Cottage Industries Emporium.

Shopping and Shopping and Café Lunch.

Suitcase and shoeshines on Janpat.






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Tuk Tuk back to Hotel.

Relax and repack.

Check out at 6.

Out for Aangan dinner.

Stop for beer at Spicy by Nature. 

Uday ride waiting at 7:50

To the Airport.  Uday’s Kailash P.

Checkin, but no water, and can’t take Nag Tibba staff.

Waiting.

Continental 14 hour flight from Delhi to Newark.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Dilli and Kailash

Dilli Haat and Greater Kailash Market - 2 November 2009 Monday.  Guru Nanak's holiday, full moon.

[Details and more later]

Breakfast buffet again (holiday).  Taxi (same driver as yesterday) to Dilli Haat - a collection of 80 or so state and specialty Indian carft shops and 10 or so different state food restaurants - shopping.  Over to Greater Kailash and three FabIndia stores and Anokhi. Back to Grand Peepal Hotel.  Walk to Aangan veg restaurant, with another surprise - the open walking shopping mall along 5 or 6 vehicle-free roads, with street shops and stalls, crowds of strollers and many hawkers calling out their wares and prices.  Marvelous buzz of activity.  Great thali and Hyderabadi chaap.  To Peepal rooftop to view and hear fireworks in the distance celebrating Guru Nanak's day.

Khan and Lodi

Khan Market and Lodi Gardens - 1 November 2009 Sunday

[Details and more later]

Breakfast surprise - no room service, buffet on the roof. Taxi to Khan Market with lunch at Latitude, shoping and small FabIndia shop.  All bookstores closed. Lodi Gardens - lots of couples cuddling by the pond, families picinicing, girl scouts and boys playing games, badminton, sun, delightful screams. Hotel and walk to Suruchi supper with Rajasthani and Gujarati thalis.

Delhi shopping

Delhi Shopping - 31 October 2009 Saturday

[Deatils and more later]

Breakfast. Taxi to Janpat. Pizza Hut lunch. Walking up Janpat, pricing things and buying custard apples. Over to State emporiums - Gujarat, Delhi.  Search for and find FabIndia - packed and little selection. Back to Grand Peepal Hotel.  Walk to supper at Sandoz.