City welcomes

It is when one deboards the train, solving accommodation issue, sticking fingers inside ears trying to block the noise of the loudest honker passing by. It is when there is too many people around, too many going opposite direcion, too many going the same; when the road is impossible to cross...
Eating at Sikh's restaurant is generally a guarantee of good quality/price food, I am always checking for the towel-headed guy behind the counter. Shyfully testing new dishes, most of them contain chilly but would not be too hot for me though sometimes I get enough sweating on my forehead. Favorite one is called Thali, it is one where you get full plate of different sauces-dals-legumen soup plus vegetables, plus bread or/and rice, delightfully varying from kitchen to kitchen/day to day. My stomach strikes/hurts when I consume chilly-containing food 3 times a day and therefore I eliminate if possible. Fruit or just plain roti/chapati/naan(bread) can be gotten at many places. Also one can be sometimes lucky to find an omelet, strange thing is that when they say vegetarian restaurant they usually mean that it is vegan - no eggs nor diary products.
Finding place to stay in Delhi was not easy but I have succeeded in the end spending each of my 3 nights in different part of town and with different people definitely worth it. Right at the beginning I bought the travel card for 3 days and Delhi metro, spending 300 Rupees -(minus) 50 Rupees depository fee which were refunded to me when returning this card.
Highlights of Delhi-experience:
- Dirty and busy streets of Old Delhi, which would normally be the downlight but somehow I have enjoyed them. Just being flowed by streams of city busyness and dirt, washed off by frequent showers, having the cheapest possible meals - 30 Rupees for very tasty Thali inside a rat-hole enlightened by candles. Very cheap and dirty romance was amusing myself.
- Other is pretty good and new metro, but Delhi is huge and needs much more anyway. - Playing with kites and smoking chillum on the roof of a house in presidential gardens, where public have no access, how do you think I managed? I blinked my left eye at the guards and they right away called a driver to tour me around the forbidden area...
- Partying hard on 10th story building roof until there was no more drinks and people to carry on with.
- Meeting (by a pure chance) friends from Hampi, in a streets of Delhi? Ever since I do not believe the city is that big.
- few more things, but I feel too lazy to write today
Summarized as typical Delhi adventure, crazy although I crazed it my own way, enjoyable short stay. Does not scare me no more.
At the train to Jammu I met yet another of strangers-humans and we traveled together all the way to Srinagar, making this not short journey much more pleasant. First night here I spent in hotel run by CSer, so I did not have to pay but made me feel bit strange, also meeting his business-chasing friends who were kind enough to offer anything they could have sold to me, rich-but-poor tourist. Unlucky I always have to make them, wasting their energy on me who would all the time smile at them describing my budget.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be able to shift away from this CS hotelier and stay with family, where I certainly enjoy my stay much more and experience Kashmiry life-style.
Floating around the lakes full of lotus and water lilly, being mesmerised by murmur of a paddle pushing the little boat or shikara forwards, full relaxation. This morning I was taken to early vegetable market exchange which takes place almost daily on one of these lakes in a little bay and in very early morning - at around 5am... Little gardening also helps to clean not only garden itself but my head too.