TUESDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 1976 - Part One
"Had a lazy half a morning - coffee and actually cleaned my shoes!
Went into Delhi with Jan, Chris and Nicki by foot. Walked up to Red Fort - I acted as official guide much to annoyance of real one who kept insisting he knew more than I did! Had a coffee in the arcade. (Red Ford built in 1600s by Shahjahan - put in prison by his third son who also bumped off his brothers to become Moghul)
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Walked up to Chandi Chauk - very busy; amazing characters, people selling flowers of bright orange and yellow. Women with baskets of mud on heads. Great amount of drapers - cheap looking garments and loads of bright clothes. Bazaar looked a bit too dingy. Got scooter rickshaws to Connaught Circus - me and Jan got into a real heap - there was smoke coming up behind the seat and by me; my seat was red-hot!
Chris and Nicky took us to the Indian coffee-house up a lift - a real grotty cafe, but with waiters dressed in white with green cummerbunds and hats with parrot crest-type top. Had 6 chips and a coffee!"
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