{"id":9532,"date":"1997-04-16T18:18:46","date_gmt":"1997-04-17T00:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:07:33","slug":"delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=9532","title":{"rendered":"Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delhi seems to be the meeting place for long lost friends. While being dragged about various shops and merchants to look at clothing and rugs I didn’t want (by a rickshaw driver), I accidentally ran into Andrew and Mari — two friends that I started my journey with in Canada. And, later in the day whilst on a bus to the airport, I ran into Steve from Crawley who was on his way to Indonesia.<\/p>\n

The goal for the day was to get all of the mail I’ve been having friends and family send to the Delhi Post Office; only, a “mysterious” government holiday was declared and the post office was inexplicably closed. No one else in the city seemed to be observing a holiday; as was evidenced when we went to Wimpy’s for lunch and everyone was decked out in their best jeans and t-shirts. I think this is my first “western” experience I’ve had since coming to India 4 months ago; a burger and fries combo never looked so good (coming from the person who shuns burger chains).<\/p>\n

While in the city we wandered from park to park just soaking up the sun, playing a bit of ultimate, and in search of someone to repair our well worn shoes. The price to get our shoes repaired was 5 rupees per shoe but this kept changing as the repairs progressed — pretty typical. While the shoe repair saga was going on I watched elephants doing street work in utter fascination. There’s something strangely compelling about watching a creature that is as large as a construction vehicle doing work.<\/p>\n