Day 1 in Delhi.

We are here. What fair reader, you say you have a question. "So how does one get to their hotel from the airport with no relatives/friends to drive you?" Simple, you fanciful beast. You get a prepaid taxi. You pay at the kiosk and then get directed to the cab. Once you manage to dodge the touts who "try" to help you load the baggage into the cab you get driven to the hotel.
Yes, my fantastically loyal but slightly elongated reader, do you have another question? "But @damookman, how does a handsome and totally-in-shape blogger like you dodge the touts?" Simple my lovely aardvark. You do so by slapping their hand away when they try to reach for the suitcase...repeatedly. PD on the other hand did give them his bag. The tout then spent the remainder 10 minutes begging PD for money for lifting a bag a monumental distance of 1 foot.

From 2009-12-13

We got driven in night to our Hotel. No major drama there. We ordered some late night dinner and then went to sleep.

We woke up this morning at 1100 and decided to grab a taxi for the entire day and then get some breakfast/shopping/touring done. We got out of the hotel, grabbed the taxi and head to Kwality (not misspelled) restaurant. Umm... oopsie. That did not go as planned as we could not find the place because the moment we got out of the cab because we got mobbed by touts.  We had to duck into a McDonald's to just grab something, while we thought about our plan of attack. We decided that MT and PD needed to buy clothes. Jumped back into our cab, and then jetted to Greater Kailash Markets to buy clothes.After getting my friends suited and booted (metaphorically speaking) we ducked into a local cafe for a quick bite and even quicker pint. Mission accomplished.

From 2009-12-13

From 2009-12-13

The plan for the evening upon return from shopping was to go to India Gate and dinner at "Punjabi by Nature". Well owing to time restraints (RE: we leave for Agra in the morning, making our wake up time effectively as too-bloody-early 'o' clock) the India gate trip had to be postponed. Well after having a great meal, and drinking a few more pints, it is 1240 local time, and I am still up. This is going to hurt in the morning.

Tomorrow: Our various cabbies