25th June 1992 Day 341

The Diary
We tried out the local buses & actually got something done. We visited the Qutub Minar, Safdarjung Tomb, the Lodi Tombs and the National Museum (best museum in Asia?) all for a handful of rupees.

Qutub Minar

Safdarjung Tomb

We caught a rickshaw from the National Museum to Connaught Place & ate at Kwality restaurant before returning to the Metropolis. In the evening we chatted to John (Australian) & Heather (Kiwi). He worked for an environmental agency and was in India to plant trees. He'd been to India lots of times and had the advantage of speaking Hindi. We talked about all sorts of subjects & I think J & H detest US policy as much as I do.


2012
The National Museum may have been good but it's current website is useless.


I've no idea what my issue with US policy was - what was going on in the world at the time? The Gulf War? George Bush? Too much Spitting image? Coca-cola? McDonalds? Carl Lewis not making the Olympic team? Who knows.


India was the only country we went to (in fact, I've ever been to) where you couldn't buy Coca-cola. Lehar Pepsi was all you could get.