Delhi Driving Observations

1. How to approach a roundabout: driving at the same speed as the traffic already on the roundabout enables you to fit into available gaps with ease (?!?)

2. The biggest vehicle has priority, unless you are chauffering someone in a snazzy BMW, in which case nervousness means you drop down the pecking order

3. Traffic lights are ignored unless there is a large amount of heavy traffic going across the direction you want to go in.

4. You can always turn left at traffic lights, red light or not (for method see #1)

 

Final Packing

After spending yesterday shouting into the corner of my laptop like a madwoman trying to get the nice Indian lady to hear me over the poor skype connection, I have now rearranged my flight from Delhi to Goa, so I will now be getting to Goa a day later than expected on September 7th.

In the meantime I'm making a list (and checking it twice) of what I know I'm going to need to take with me, and also what I don't know that I'm going to need to take with me. Which is a little more difficult.

I'm also:

a) pondering why it costs me more to get from Bristol to Heathrow (105 miles) than Delhi to Goa (1180 miles)

b) trying to find an insurance company that will provide me annual trip cover for:

           Driving a rickshaw without a motorcycle license

           Diving more than once in a day

           Paragliding

           Skiing

           Flying with Indian budget airlines

           Going to the US

 

 

Preparation

Had all my jabs now, got the International Driving Permit, Indian visa, and will send off for the Nepalese one tomorrow.

Shiv has had some jabs, has got both visas and her International Driving Permit.

So we're both getting there!

We've got to get the paintjob designs to the Adventurists by August 10th, so I've been mocking up some ideas...

A couple of ideas: [http://twitpic.com/caffb](http://twitpic.com/caffb) and [http://twitpic.com/cafm4](http://twitpic.com/cafm4)

Any thoughts?!