Delhi

So after what seemed like an eternity of waiting for the holidays to come, we finally made it to India. Neither of us particularly liked Delhi as a city, it is however not Bangladesh which made it better. It is such a sprawling city, and having found what seems like the only reasonably priced hotel (with a pool) in Delhi, we had to take a 15 minute rickshaw ride and the metro for about forty five minutes to get into the centre of Delhi.
The security in Delhi is quite intense, with metal detectors, pat downs and bag x-rays at every metro station, shopping mall and hotel. It did make us feel quite safe though knowing that they do take security seriously. The only slightly unnerving time was on a tightly packed metro train when a man suddenly started praying quite loudly, not something we would normally even take notice of. The whole train carriage suddenly looked very nervous, and being in a country where religous extremists have attacked before we all probably had good reason to feel a little uncomfortable (if it weren't for all the security to get on the train, I probably would have got off at the next station, better to be safe than sorry).
We enjoyed eating lots of great Indian food, and also took our chance to indulge in some faster food that we dont get in Dhaka. (Dominoes pizza do a great pepperoni!!) Traffic was not nearly as bad as Dhaka, which was nice, but its still a hard city to get around in because everything is so far away. We visited the Red fort which was amazing from the outside with its extremely high walls, and moat, but was a bit of a letdown on the inside. It was cool to go to India gate and see in person what we saw on TV when the commonwealth games were on. And there was a really great exhibition of bears (photos below) on in Connaught Place. There was one from each of the UN member countries.

A little taste of home.

Ireland

Red Fort from outside

These walls are massive, the photo doesn't really do the size of it justice

Jemma, with the Guard post behind, machine gun pointed at the entranceway just incase somebody decides to invade

Inside the Red fort, the buildings weren't very impressive inside, most of them are poorly looked after. The squirrels running around all over the grounds were far more interesting.