in slowing down at each semi important place and explaining about it, can't say either of us were that bothered to hear about such great venues as the post office and some posh 5 star hotel! We then came to what we thought was our hotel and the rickshaw driver said 'oh look it closed for renovations! Us thinking that was the oldest trick in the book didn't believe him and thought he was trying to rip us off. So as he pulled up, and we looked sure enough the place was boarded up, Rob went to investigate and yeap it was closed for renovation. We couldn't understand what was going on until we remembered that the phone number out of Lonely Planet didn't work so we'd got it off the internet. Fortunately I had written the phone number down so we were able to speak to them. It turns out that the hotel we had booked was of the same name but in a completely different place - DOH! As the rickshaw man knew we'd thought he was trying to rip us off he then continued to plead his innocence and believe me he went on

and on and on, we were just thinking will you just shut up please! He then went on to tell us that the place we were going to was a complete rip off and really horrible and he knew somewhere much better! Arrrrgggghhhh!!! We had got past caring what the hotel may or may not be like and just wanted to get there and have a beer, something of which we hadn't had for quite sometime!

Eventually and very wearily we pulled up outside our hotel at 10.00 p.m. So much for arriving around 6!!! Anyway the hotel was great, the rickshaw driver was hovering for commission but thankfully the hotel didn't give it. So we went straight up to our room, dumped the bags then hit the restaurant and ordered a beer each closely followed by another couple and another couple!

As Delhi was not one of our favourite