Time limit helps me be succinct, maybe

Quite often I am a women of cascading words: phrase after phrase spinning off my tongue like the flying colors of the most magnificent acordian skirt. But today, I have no choice but to be succint: my computer time-limit is nearly up, so I am racing the clock.

Let me just reiterate that the laughter has continued as I venture out into the crumbling streets of Delhi. I learned why the entire city-center is under construction and displaying scaffolding and huge rock piles and rock tumbles at every glance. In two months time, the Commonwealth Games arrive here in Delhi. Like the Olympics, I've been told, but smaller. At the rate they are going, it is hard to believe the city will be an immaculate postcard in just two months: but, workers are banging and clanging around the clock, so anything is possibe.

Walking adventures over scaffolding and zig-zagging through manholes turned into a queenly India breakfast at what looked like a sterilized and sparkling fast-food joint and ended up being an excellent joint where locals and tourists alike enjoy cheap and yummy treats. The only breakfast place open before 11AM: life starts late here. So breakfast at 10AM with a stranger who made fast friends as he talked about where he was from and where we were from and where to go and what to see and the Commonwealth Games and the delciciousness of South Indian Masala Dosa breakfast. What fun.

And then back on the streets: offered a fine deal on an auto-rickshaw ride by Sonno: "First customer of the day: best price!" What a sweet man: helps us cross the crazy highway traffic running, takes us to the most reputable travel agencies and helps us try and get a good deal,shows us around Connaught Place, the city center, and makes suggestions of what Bazaars to visit and the pros and cons of each.

Mika just left for Varanasi. I will stay in Delhi another day and leave for Agra on Sunday morning. More updates to come: I think I will see the puppeteer Jagdish and his son, Manchu later this evening for another memorable show.