Today has been lovely.
I got up late and listened to a few chapters of Three Men in a Boat. I ate breakfast in bed and got some more Traveller's Cheques changed, at a relatively good rate, taken from and delivered to my door. I showered in relative warmth and watched some of the Republic Day celebrations on TV. It just looked like a show of India's military strength to me, and the woman that was commentating was really quite rude.
I left to get the metro at half ten and it was the quietest its been since I got here. Not many stops were open on my line but mine was (so lucky, I hadn't checked at all and might have had to have walked a very long way). I was bang on time to meet Alka at the IHC. We jumped in her car and went off to her house in South Ex. II. When we got there her 'boy' took me out to see a house, but the owner wasn't around, so I just ended up being in the sun for a while, which was nice. We went back to Alka's and worked on her curatorial text for the exhibition and got it done quite quickly. Then Alka's Latvian friend came over and we all ate a gorgeous North Indian meal. I was so stuffed. They then dropped me off on their way back in to town.
And I've just finished my work and have four days off to look at houses and settle Annu into the hectic metropolis that is New Delhi.
I got up late and listened to a few chapters of Three Men in a Boat. I ate breakfast in bed and got some more Traveller's Cheques changed, at a relatively good rate, taken from and delivered to my door. I showered in relative warmth and watched some of the Republic Day celebrations on TV. It just looked like a show of India's military strength to me, and the woman that was commentating was really quite rude.
I left to get the metro at half ten and it was the quietest its been since I got here. Not many stops were open on my line but mine was (so lucky, I hadn't checked at all and might have had to have walked a very long way). I was bang on time to meet Alka at the IHC. We jumped in her car and went off to her house in South Ex. II. When we got there her 'boy' took me out to see a house, but the owner wasn't around, so I just ended up being in the sun for a while, which was nice. We went back to Alka's and worked on her curatorial text for the exhibition and got it done quite quickly. Then Alka's Latvian friend came over and we all ate a gorgeous North Indian meal. I was so stuffed. They then dropped me off on their way back in to town.
And I've just finished my work and have four days off to look at houses and settle Annu into the hectic metropolis that is New Delhi.
The urban giraffe
View from the metro
The metro car itself
Ramakrishna Ashram Marg
An odd view. Cycle rickshaw
IHC gate 3
Alka's lovely study (mit personal kettle and fridge)
Roof garden at Alka's. I'll be so happy if I get one
An eternal image of the student, Hopper
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