Delhi blues (27th October 1999, Delhi)
A whole day to spend at Delhi. What were we going to do?
Having slept through most of the morning with flu
we hit the city early in the afternoon. We found an
Internet browsing centre right next to our hotel and
settled down there. After 15 minutes we hadn't made
any progress whatsoever. I have been complaining about
Internet connections for the best part of this tour,
but this absolutely took the cake. After more time
spent in non progress we decided to find a better
browsing centre. We took an auto rickshaw and went
to the heart of the city - Connaught Place.
At Connaught Place we found another browsing centre
and sat there for the best part of two hours doing
various little things on the Net. At the end of our
session the person behind the counter suggested
that we wind down by visiting a blues bar down the road.
Having listened to so much of the blues (and having
felt more than a fair share of them myself!) I always wanted
to go to a blues bar. Well, this is still Delhi and blues
bar or not, there was no live band.
The paneling outside the place had a couple of paragraphs that
you wouldn't expect in anything associated with
the blues. A mention of BB King and John Lee
Hooker led me to believe that the place might actually
have some promise. Sitting around for over half an
hour and hearing nothing but Latin American dance music
I got a little suspicious and walked over to have a word
with the disc jockey. In a wannabe Caribbean drawl
he tells me "No maan, I'm sorry maan, there's a Mexican
festival going on and we only play da blues in da
afternoon" That explained a lot of things! So we stuck
around for a little while longer, nursed a few
beers and headed out. Duane felt like an ice cream
so we grabbed chocolate milkshakes and headed back
to our hotel room. Having set multiple mobile phone and
hotel alarms for very early in the morning we drifted off
into deep sleep.
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