Ahmedabad day 3/4 (the wedding): What an amazing place. What beautiful people. Over 500 year old amazing buildings amongst ruins. Polished marble next to piles of crap. To Chirag and Teena, what incredible hospitality and an unreal wedding night. The colour, the excitement, the smiles, the beauty and the bling. To Mr and Mrs Pancholi, amazing generosity. To Surbhi, many more thanks for a wonderful time. To Manish and his fantastic uncles, aunts, cousins, and extended family, treasured memories and new friends welcome at our house anytime.
Dehli day 1: India is a bucket of shit! The people are a product of their environment. Useless, incompetent, filthy, lying sewer scum. The Poms failed massively here, no wonder they gave the joint back to a bloke in rags and thongs. Why would you ever bother. Can't get out of this cesspit soon enough!
Dehli days 2, 3 & 4: Unique.The best word I can find to describe this country. Of the 22 countries I have now been to (yes, I even surprised myself) I have found nowhere else in the world that evokes such polar extremes of everything. You can love it with immense passion and hate it in the extremes at any given time. It will frustrate you beyond belief and then amaze you just as quickly. One moment you will want for more, the next you will just want out. You want to nurture it one minute and nuke it the next. From the vast grand excesses of wealth displayed by the tombs and temples, to the depths of poverty next door that you cannot begin to imagine. The complexity, incredible detail and symmetry of the architecture to the piles of dirt, debris and slums that surround them. The peace and the tranquility in the magnificent gardens to the utter chaos and manic disorder on the roads. The effervescent faces and exhuberance of the kids playing cricket wherever they can to the despair and desperation of the mangled and mutilated on the streets.
One cannot express in words the experiences and feelings that change so quickly and to such extreme. Are we glad we came? Yes and No. Do we recommend it to others? Yes and No. Unique!
Dehli day 1: India is a bucket of shit! The people are a product of their environment. Useless, incompetent, filthy, lying sewer scum. The Poms failed massively here, no wonder they gave the joint back to a bloke in rags and thongs. Why would you ever bother. Can't get out of this cesspit soon enough!
Dehli days 2, 3 & 4: Unique.The best word I can find to describe this country. Of the 22 countries I have now been to (yes, I even surprised myself) I have found nowhere else in the world that evokes such polar extremes of everything. You can love it with immense passion and hate it in the extremes at any given time. It will frustrate you beyond belief and then amaze you just as quickly. One moment you will want for more, the next you will just want out. You want to nurture it one minute and nuke it the next. From the vast grand excesses of wealth displayed by the tombs and temples, to the depths of poverty next door that you cannot begin to imagine. The complexity, incredible detail and symmetry of the architecture to the piles of dirt, debris and slums that surround them. The peace and the tranquility in the magnificent gardens to the utter chaos and manic disorder on the roads. The effervescent faces and exhuberance of the kids playing cricket wherever they can to the despair and desperation of the mangled and mutilated on the streets.
One cannot express in words the experiences and feelings that change so quickly and to such extreme. Are we glad we came? Yes and No. Do we recommend it to others? Yes and No. Unique!
Hey Bicknell Family, the photos look amazing!! Jack and Max, Lakem thought you looked really funny in your outfits, but I thought you looked really cute!!! Ha ha!!
ReplyDeletehalo all surabhi here...
ReplyDeletenice to see d pics....hope u all enjoying at delhi....and belated birthday wishes to u Max.... may God bless u with a long and healthy life ahead!!!!