Delhi/Chandigarh 19 Dec 2012

Had the hottest (bucket) shower last night back at Hotel Ajanta in Delhi, even had to add cold.  It was glorious after the past two weeks of many lukewarm showers.

Deepak got the roof rack fitted last night when we arrived back in Delhi without any problems.  This morning securing the ski bag into the roof rack was more eventful.  After a time all ended okay and off we went.  Thanks to Kenny Koala for those pineapple knots.

It was a six hour drive today from Delhi to Chandigarh.  The scenery was flat fields of sugar cane, oranges and gum trees lining the highway.  

Sadly, didn’t get any photos of the orange displays on the side of the roads.  Each stall owner trying to outdo the other with their artistic displays.

We stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch.  The place had a carnival feel about it, there was a playground, different food stalls and a truck on the roof like the Ettamogah Pub.  We had yummy Masala dosa for lunch, one of my favourite Indian dishes.  They are a southern Indian speciality.  It is like a large pancake with a filling of potatoes and onions served with a variety of chutneys.  The pancake batter is made of rice and dahl.  Jim finished it off with a honeycrunch ice cream from Baskin n Robins.  

Amazing, here in the Punjab we drove past McDonalds advertising vegetable and paneer burgers and KFC.  Deepak asked if we wanted to go there for lunch.  We declined.

Jim and Deepak are similar, both are not keen to walk too far and both like gadgets.  Driving along they entertain each other with talking cars and sharing music from Jim’s ipod and Deepak’s collection on his usb.  Today Jim was entering phrases into his Hindu translator app and quizzing Deepak to guess what it was. 

Driving into Chandigarh Deepak asks Jim to check Google maps on his iphone for directions.  He was not totally sure of where our hotel was.  He showed Jim how to have voice directions as well. 

I find it entertaining, sitting in the back like all good girls in India do.