Thursday, June 16, 2011
Flight # 10
Return to Istanbul. We got the same dinner as last time. Weird sandwich, yummy hummus, but odd salad. Fantastic strawberry cream stuff. Coca Cola.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Delhi
NB - 4 and a bit years of age
IB - 2 years of age
JB - girl adult
AB - boy adult
NB: I like that we got a big carton of icecream.
IB: The pool.
JB: Feeling like I am on holiday all the time.
AB: The swimming pool.
What is the best thing you have seen since moving to Delhi?
NB: The turtle.
IB: Having a best friend for the first time - Isla.
JB: Indians who have little giving money to people who have less.
AB: Sufi Temple in the musicians quarter of old Delhi.
What is the most different thing between living in Canberra and Delhi?
NB: Rickshaws.
IB: Not being in a cot.
JB: The feeling that I don't hate it.
AB: Rubble.
What do you like the most about your new house?
NB: Mummy putting up new pictures on my bedroom wall.
IB: Sharing a room with my sister
JB: The space - it's bigger.
AB: The tennis court in the front yard.
What do you like the least about living in Delhi?
NB: I like everything.
IB: I get itchy all the time.
JB: Wasps.
AB: Having to have a driver. I'd rather have a car and go to places when I want to.
What is your favourite food in Delhi?
NB: Rice with tomato sauce.
IB: Egg
JB: The sourdough from the french bakery.
AB: The dinner we had at Bukhara, which you are most likely just about to write about.
My answers:
What do you like the best about visiting Delhi?
Hanging out and drawing on the big table, knowing there is a turtle stalking us from the backyard.
What is the best thing you have seen since visiting Delhi?
The traffic. There are so many cars and rickshaws and bikes all competing for the road. There don't seem to be any defined lanes, but it all works in uniform chaos.
What is the most different thing between Canberra and Delhi?
The lemons.
What do you like the most about the Blachfords new house?
The fact that they have only been here two much and it is very much the Blachford's home. The beautiful pieces of arts and collectables and the well thought out rooms with everything just right, but in an off kilter way.
What do you like the least about visiting Delhi?
That you just can't pop out for something or to go somewhere. I also didn't like the air con failing in the car on the day it was 48 degrees and I was in the back of the car for 4.5 hours. But that wasn't officially in Delhi...
What is your favourite food in Delhi?
The dinner we had at Bukhara.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
South American Folk Band - they sure do get around
Isn't it funny how you can bump into the same South American Folk Band just about fricking everywhere. We were on our way to Kadakoy (or Karakoy - I just always get those two confused, but never mind) and there in the ferry terminal was the South American Folk Band. I turned to one of my traveling companions and said, 'hey - thats the South American Folk Band from the Bus Depot Markets!'
She said 'I know - that is the same South American Folk Band that came to Weetangera* primary school when I was ten!'
I then said 'come to think of it, I've also seen that exact same band in Prague, Sydney, New York and London - what a small world!'
So I went up to the South American Folk Band and said 'Hey guys! I don't want to seem like a groupie, but my friend and I have seen you in Weetangera, Kingston, Prague, Sydney, New York and London and now in Istanbul. How weird is that?'
They just looked at me and smiled and launched into an acappella version of Guantanamera, but from the corner of my eye I glimpsed a brochure....and I saw the shape of a pyramid. Could it be true? That South American Folk Bands are the product of a complex international pyramid scheme?
*She might have said a different primary school - I forget
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