Last morning in Delhi

Falling behind on our blog posts because most of the time here we have had, despite the much –touted Indian technological transformation, no internet access. (There’s a network at the hotel, closely modeled on the hot water supply.) I am typing this (as with my last post) in Word, to paste into the blog if/when possible.

On Wed morning we left by road on a mad, mad jaunt to Agra. As it turned out, it’s really much too far to go by road given the available time. (Caveat: had we gone by air or rail, we would not have gone at all, due to the fog.) Our driver Kishore negotiated the insanity with the skill (and sometimes bravado) of a fighter pilot in a 1,000-planee dogfight, and we got to see the Taj in a miraculous late-afternoon break in the fog.

Yesterday even crazier – eight hours in the car, total, for the sake of two hours at Fatehpur Sikri. Today free in Delhi – and no fog for the first time! To Bangkok at five past midnight…