We spent this morning doing last minute jobs like sending another massive parcel home! Must curb the shopping habit!! At 4.30pm we had our last wander around the streets of Delhi before jumping in our taxi to the airport, where we stocked up on some very cheap vodka (only $10 for a massive bottle of vanilla Smirnoff!) before boarding around 8.30pm. Our last meal in the airport was a chicken tikka masala which was a lovely end to our experience of India. We nearly...

Today we decided to spend in Old Delhi, seeing as this was the only part of Delhi we were yet to explore! We took a rickshaw to the main road, Chandi Chowk, where we passed the outside walls of the red fort, which of course due to republic day was unfortunately closed. The market was brilliant, selling everything you can imagine, and towards the end was the world-famous spice market, where we stocked up on chai and special indian spices (in the parcel home!). We ...

We woke up late again, and spent the morning catching up on the internet- we had planned to visit the Red Fort and National Museum however both were closed as it was a Monday and will continue to be due to impending Republic Day celebrations. We went briefly back to Connaught Place but as we were both tired we came back early, and got ready to meet Aunty Gilly again for the evening. Poonam's driver was late to pick us up so we sat outside for an hour watching the...

After our first lovely long lie-in in a whole month, we woke to pack and check out, jamming our 2 huge backpacks, extra bag full of what we'd bought, and two daypacks filled to the brim into a tuk-tuk- what a sight we must have looked! We were struggling to decide how to fill the four days we had left in Delhi, as we'd already explored much of what it has to offer, so we headed to Connaught Place, a modern shopping area set around a massive roundabout, where Indi...

We arrived back in Delhi at 7.45am , after a break of nearly 20 days! We set off after lunch to explore the sights we were yet to see, starting with the Lodi Gardens. This was a beautiful park, a breath of fresh air set in the heart of Delhi, a welcome break from the traffic and pollution. Set in the gardens stands a tomb of Mohammed Shah and an adjacent mosque, very unlooked after considering it was built around 1400 AD. We had a lovely time wandering round in t...