Jim 12/7 - Last Day in Delhi

I'm not going to get very far with the story on this post, I'm tired and am on my way back to our $1.33 a night room in Pokhara, Nepal, but I thought I'd update things a bit and hopefully fill in a lot more tomorrow.

Our last day in Delhi was somewhat uneventful, one of the items on our list was to get some passport size pictures for Adam, we were going to need them when we got to the Nepal border, and that would most likely happen in the evening when such things might not be available. We went into central Delhi, near Connaught Place, where we spotted a passport photo spot, a tiny little shop across from some of the fancier stores of Connaught Place. We went in and the photographer was anxious to take the picture but his power had just gone out, a not unusual thing in Delhi, he could take the picture but couldn't print them so we decided to walk around a little and come back, still no power, so we waited for about an hour and still no power so we gave up and went on the search for another store. We found one not to far away but it was housed in a upscale camera store that sold Nikon and Canon cameras, needless to say we paid about four times more for the photos than we would of in the first store. As we were leaving the camera store we spotted a bookstore that looked interesting, reminded me of an old time NYC book store, pre Borders, but on a smaller scale. An hour later we left the bookstore our backpacks considerably heavier. It was lunchtime and we had read about a old time restaurant, Kirim's in the bazaar of Old Delhi that was highly rated on some list of great Asian restaurants, highly rated but not very expensive, so we headed there. We found it down a back alley in the Bazaar went in and got our table. It was crowded and they practiced family seating so soon an Indian couple sat down with us. We struck up a conversation with them, in English, as our Hindi is still nonexistent, and it turned out that they had been headed for the restaurant, where they had last eaten about 20 years ago, and had been somewhat lost until they saw us and figured that we were also headed there and looked like we knew where we were going, so they followed us in. Nice people, they are involved in a hotel in Mysore where we might stay later in the trip if we have enough money left. After lunch we went by the train station to check on our train that evening but nothing was posted yet so we went back to our hotel, hung out, had a little food and waited till time to get to the train station. That's all for now, much more to report but it will have to wait until tomorrow.