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In this video, a chipmunk chirps on the porch of our vacation rental in Delhi, India. The landlord, an educated man, told us that one of the tenants before us was a Korean Buddhist monk who claimed to be able to talk to animals. One day, the landlord walked in on the monk who was sitting quietly on the porch, surrounded by birds. The monk told the landlord that the birds in Delhi were "sad". ...
A pigeon scavengers for food as we wait to check-in at the luggage counter at Indira Ghandi International Airport in Delhi, India. ...
The Delhi monsoon brought in heavy rains each afternoon. Water would flood the streets, making it hard to drive and icky to walk. In this video, the taxi driver is taking us to the Indira Ghandi Airport in Delhi for our flight to the Kangra Airport in Dharamshala. ...
In India, it isn't always easy to decipher what people are doing. In this video, Lydi and I watch some men who stand around looking at five bricks sitting on top of an apartment building across the way as though they planned to build something big. ...
We saw a number of patriotic parades in northern Delhi when we visited in August, 2016. We got to see this parade from our apartment on the fourth floor. ...
In northern India, in both Delhi and the Mcleodganj area, we received things like eggs and rice from vendors in these handmade newspaper bags. I don't know whether the vendors made them themselves or someone else made them and sold them to the vendors. Either way, it's innovative and resourceful!
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It's hard to describe India to anyone who hasn't been there. There's no reprieve from it, even inside when we're "at home". The particular apartment that we rented was in a "nice" area of Delhi, but the furnishings had crusty stains all over them and the silverware was "sticky". There were pubic hairs all over our sheets. So we cleaned the sheets, wiped off the crusty stains, and washed the silverware. But ...
On a grocery outing in our neighborhood in Delhi, John and I walk to see the local granary before stopping at the fresh fruit and vegetable vendors. The streets are dirty and dusty and filled with cows and trash. ...
What the hell are these people DOING? The Holiday Inn in Delhi is a fairly nice hotel in India (as compared, for example, with places where the mattresses and pillows are molding), but this is just another reason why we NEVER swim in swimming pools outside of the United States. It makes my skin crawl just watching this video! ...
For us, as people who earn most of our living online, Internet availability is extremely important when we travel abroad. We worried about electrical outages in Chennai because we’d spent 6 weeks in Kathmandu, Nepal two years prior dealing with them every day for 6 to 8 hours each day. But during our two weeks in Chennai at an AirBnB vacation rental, there were only about 8 outages, usually in the early ...