more delhi

went to crazy Main Bazaar road and was inundated with people trying to sell me shit (this after only managing to get there by agreeing to take a half-price autorickshaw ride from the same driver as yesterday who is hooked like a heroin addict on getting his "delivery of tourist" commissions)... after nice food went to Rs 15/- per hour internet cafe - cheap, crap link and after 1h, the building lost power (hosts stayed up as they all had baby UPSes (which it turns out the machines in the hostel do too) but the network went away so no use...), then got cycle rickshaw to red fort through another crazy market street (cows, horses, cyclos, cars and buses all mixed in together with the peds) which had shops selling hardware - one for example proudly proclaimed its range of asbestos based products. Red fort was nice -- inside the paid area no one trying to sell me shit; all sorts of indians interested to see a white face (surprisingly few of those given proximity of cheap traveller area) and often stopped just to say hello or take my photo. Some police reservists wasting time before going on duty took me for tea in a cafe in the fort; then to a hotel bar which looked like a fake english pub (the coffee house I've been frequenting also looks like a fake english pub -- maybe everywhere in this country does?) then RS5/- street food paid for with RS100/- note - oops, then walked down random road twoflower-like until I found a bunch of autotaxis waiting outside a crowded gurdwara - took me a while to find an autodriver who would take me so far as the hostel I'm staying in - the one that did seemed taken aback by my acceptance of his first price offer (in fact, they all seemed taken aback that I wanted an autorickshaw...), then spent 10 mins with a large number of other autorickshaw drivers trying to work out wtf it was I actually wanted to go... delivered me back OK, though, to hostel where I had to fuck round for 20 mins getting them to fix the internet so I could write this.

Tomorrow leave and go to next crazy city.