Morning report today, I would not have thought enough would have happened over night to warrant writing another one yet apparently half of the world is just waking up when I go to bed. India 10 1/2 hours ahead of Ottawa. In Delhi I am once again being spoiled; when I arrived Vargha and I stayed at a 5 star hotel and until the 24th Hamid and myself are staying in the luxury condo of his friend/the boss of Carpet international.
I forgot my sunglasses today, a small thing that means nothing, except I oddly felt more professional taking them off when I arrived at places and liked people being unable to see my eyes while traveling. We head to Noida which 25 years ago use to be jungle now it is a tax free industrial area. The reason it is tax free is the government of Delhi wanted to get the industries out of the city in hopes of cleaning up the air a bit and industries like not paying taxes. Now this area has become terribly polluted, nevertheless it is where Overseas Carpets Limited's main warehouse is and that is our first destination for today.
Why does my water bottle have nutrition facts on it? Unless the water is claiming to be something more then water I believe it lacks nutrition--I do not need proof of this, water is meant to hydrate not nourish.
After a quick stop off back at the condo to grab Hamid's cell and my sunglasses we part ways, Hamid heading to the airport to pick up his family and I head off with a separate driver from a different company. The original plan was for me to return to the first supplier I visited yesterday as they received more of the styles I was looking at yesterday however since I had a few questions for Angus that I needed answered before I returned I was hesitant. I expressed this concern to Hamid who suggested then that either I stay back at the condo and relax or see if the driver will take me around the city a bit. Not wanting to sit around I headed out in hopes of sightseeing.
It is strange that when i am traveling alone I am rarely nervous because I take the time to figure out what I want to do. When others are guiding me around things are out of my control and I do not bother attempting to plan so that I can accommodate their schedules, maybe it is not strange to be nervous when you have little control. Although things being out of my control i end up back at the carpet suppliers anyways. Which in hindsight is the right place to be as I have a good enough idea to continue with Kashmir Arts and more questions to ask. I also wanted to go back and visit the glasses store beside to replace the nose piece I lost on my second day in India.
Just after five I head out with Kashmir Arts driver to tour around town until sunset which is fast approaching. I have never understood why it takes people so long to look at monuments unless you are drawing it. It is for this reason that I do not like going around with tour groups because they have terrible time management. What should take minutes takes an hour or you are provided with an hour and what should take an hour or two ends up taking a day. I like to see things to see them, cool architecture, important buildings, historic places and museums. It just does not take hours to do this.
Fun fact, I have only electrocuted myself once on my power converter.
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