OMG Dehli is Mental!!

We're here and we're safe!!
After the best flight ever (!) on Jet Airways, during which we both watched 4 films and managed to sleep a total of 1 hour, we embarked on our journey to our hostel. This sounds simple enough, however as we have now come to realise, things are a bit more complicated in India. We spent 2 hours in a sweaty taxi dodging all tuk tuks and kamikaze motor-cyclists. We then eventually reached the address of our hostel, only to find an empty apartment and no sign of tourist accomodation. Following this, we set out on the second half of our hunt for a hostel, which ended up dragging over another 2 long hours, involving lots of stops at super expensive hotels and trying to haggle prices down to hostel rates. We finally got conned into signing up for a hotel which was 3 times more expensive than our original hostel, and it has mould in the corner, no window and no toilet paper!!!
So after briefly "freshening up" we ventured into big crazy and scary Dehli for food, during which time we got stopped about a million times by locals trying to make a quick buck off the naive English tourists (only a few of them succeeded until we started to catch on). Cheeky locals also tried to pick-pocket us twice so far but good thing we knew better than to carry wallets in obvious places!
So, it's hot, sticky, busy and totally in your face, and if you look past all those trying to con you we can see that the locals are lovely and warm people living in a thoroughly interesting place.
We're doing a trip around most of the major sights around Dehli tomorrow, so until then, the jury's out on this unique city.

You'll be hearing from us again soon, and until then:
Lots of Love - Rozzi and Laurence xxx