Hotel Merto Continental New Delhi

Hello everyone - hope you are managing to find your way around our first blog.

We are now in New Delhi safe and well and full of a wonderful vegetarian dinner with Martin watching CNN on the flatscreen tv - slumming it eh.

Okay our journey was wonderful a nice peaceful punctual train journey to Paddington and the Heathrow Express was very civilized too. At Heathrow - my life changed - a beautiful woman from Virgin Atlantic took a look at her computer and uttered those ...

... Nagaur District, Kuchaman
Fort has had a strategic role to play in Rajasthan's
history which unravels as one moves around its
17th century battlements. Its picturesque village
is idyllic for those who would like to discover
the charm of ...

... only option left was to get a chauffer to drive us around the desert in a car. At first this seemed a pretty unusual option (and not very "backpacker") but it seems it's a quite popular way of seeing the area and turned out to be pretty good value too. plus we will be able to see much more this way and be far more flexible. We've also managed to get our 2 day camel safari in Jaisalmer sorted along with an elephant safari at Jodhpur. So a lot ...

... who follow you everywhere and our latest tactic is to ignore them completely, don't even say 'no' just pretend they don't exist! And we've had a couple of excellent curries in local places - so Esther is finally regaining her sense of humour, which has been severely tested over the last 10 days! Plus we've survived almost 10 days now in India without any tummy troubles, which must be a ...

... is high degree of fragmentation. Further, there is a threat of cheap imports from China, specially in segments like tiles and chemicals (adhesives and paints). Both these factors put pressure on prices and operating profit margins. However, net profit rose marginally higher at 27.85% due to control over interest and depreciation costs. Here again, the list of ...

... 2,000 sq ft to around 1,500 sq ft. This has brought a sea change in prices of apartments in the Delhi- NCR. For instance, earlier, an apartment in Noida was being sold at Rs 3,600 per sq ft to Rs 4,200 per sq ft, in the guise of a premium product. At the same time, the size of a three-bedroom apartment used to be around 2,000 sq ft. that means, the cost of a ...

... Personally, I felt it really undermined the country's history and put a large mark of poo on their sense of septic honor. Tomorrow, I'm on to Agra for New Years with the Taj Mahal. I'm going via train so I'm fully busting out my dark black sunglasses and fully pulling down my shmata tube "Buff" thing from REI that works like a charm to cover my hair. I now look like a Utili-Nun ready for action!! ;) Don't forget to click on the pics (the top only displays three of em)

... for existing foreign investors that wish to enhance their investments. At present, if a foreign investor has invested up to Rs 600 crore in an existing venture and wishes to scale up its investment even by, say, Rs 10 crore, it needs approvals from both FIPB and CCEA. "It has been noticed that a number of proposals are held up for Cabinet clearance even after being cleared by ...

... had some kind of skin disorder. Perhaps leprosy. It turned out only my impression of Carmel was correct. It took a while for Nicole and Lauren to jointly let down their guard, but they turned out to be a real laugh and I hope we can stay friends somehow. At the time we had to introduce ourselves, and it was clear to me that I was the oldest there by a long way. I was expecting a whole bunch of 30 ish's but most were much younger. I felt quite nervous as I introduced myself, and ...

... then Lahore, but basically that was the trip. Having left around 8 pm Chicago time, I arrived in New Delhi at 830 pm, local time, due to the nearly 12 hours of time difference. This means that my internal clock is exactly out of sync with reality here, more on that soon. Once I got off the plane and cleared customs, I managed to find the prepaid taxi booth amonst the throng of taxi hawkers crowding around me and get a cab to my hostel in ...