Delhi Transfer

Get the money and run! Sorry harking back to a previous life there :) Seriously, the next thing you need in the airport is the Currency Exchange, you can't get Indian Rupees in the UK, it's just easier to get them when you land. Like the SIM card the Rupees also need the sight of your passport (just when you put it away for the sixth time!). Best to keep your e-Visa out too, just in case. Make sure you get some low value notes (5 & 10 rupees for tips). This is a quick job and then you're off!

Chris and I went through the arrivals lounge door and went up and down the line of the transfer staff with those signs at least three times before we found ours. (Also I just forgot to mention you need your Hepatitis A and Typhoid/Polio etc jabs too, eternally grateful for Chris not canning the idea when she found out about the world wide shortage of jabs at the moment. Instead she rang round everywhere and eventually found some, it was one of the best birthday presents I could wish for!).

Our lovely transfer man was Chaudran, who immediately adorned us with marigold flower garland necklaces and welcomed us to India :)
Then we began our car journey to our hotel in a nice air conditioned vehicle driven by Tomasan, a very patient man! I have NEVER been anywhere so busy, there are 22 million people in the city of Delhi and they drive 7 million cars. They all honk their car horns constantly. Every day another 1500 cars are bought causing more congestion and horn honking. It seems to me that the car horn honking is like car communication morse code in Delhi. One honk for 'I'm coming through' and two honks for ' I made it through that gap without denting either of our vehicles!'
Never ever have I seen so much gridlock and chaos on the road on a Saturday morning at 11am. This has been slightly relieved by the work on a new underground Metro system which encourages 4 million people into its seats!
I'm not sure how easy it would be to encourage me into one of Delhi's most common vehicles, the 'Tuk-Tuk', it's rather like introducing dodgem cars on the M62, but just make sure there are twice as many dodgems to cars! Then just add a couple of million rickshaws, bikes and mopeds (of course they're suitable for a family of 4) into the equation. Also they don't have dents in Delhi, they are called a 'mark of respect'.