Injaaa begins

Delhi, city of beeping cars, constant hassle, and cows. Riding in the taxi on the way here was much like being on a dodgem ride: quite fun but a bit more dangerous than at a fairground. More like a lot more. There aren't any lanes, just massive wide roads where cars squeeze in and out past each other and use the hooter constantly so that you are drowned in a chorus of hooting and blaring.

On the flight from Bangkok I sat next to a man who burped frequently, not nice little burps but foody deep ones, it was gross and made me feel quite ill. As a burper myself, I know I shouldn't judge, but I don't do it in public. Or I try not to anyway.

It's nice to get out of the heat of Bangkok, where sweat seemed to erupt from every part of my body, almost all of the time. It's pleasantly cool here.

After my first meal last night, I felt my stomach go upside down and begin to churn. However, it seems to have held out, just. I have been told i "will" get ill. No question in most people's minds, so i'm ready for it. I've had a lingering cold and caugh for the past week so i might as well get all the illness out of the way now. A couple I was talking to earlier refused to drink their lassies as they were worried about what would be in it, and a man next to them looked in horror at it and said, "I'd never drink that". C'mon, that's just silly. India would be much less fun if you didn't drink a lassi.

Next is Bombay, and in the meantime I'm continuing more tour with my new personal tour guide whose name I couldn't begin to pronounce at the time, let alone now remember. Today he taxi'd me round New Delhi and tomorrow it's Old Delhi. Unfortunately, he took me to one of the scammy tourist shops where they try and sell you vastly overpriced goods and taxi drivers get commission by taking you there. He was honest enough, and explained he'd get a fuel voucher if I went in for a few minutes and pretended to look at stuff, so I did it willingly - this time.

Earlier a man said to me "You want snake dance for you?", which for some reason made me laugh a lot, and I felt like I was in Aladdin.

Soon it's going to be Goaaaaaaa oh joy I can hardly wait.