It is our last night in India. There is no question at all that this is "au revoir" and not "adieu" - we will be back.
We are staying in the very new, very swanky Leela Kempinski in Gurgaon, not too far from the airport. We got housekeeping to unlock the connecting doors between the boys' room and ours, which reduces the likelihood of the boys locking themselves out of their room every time they poke their head in at us. The bathrooms are as big as anywhere, occupying around half the floor space, but the view isn't quite as picturesque as some, it's just as memorable: a 20 lane tollgate (each way). This is the view at dusk, from our second floor room.
I'm about to go hunting the bowels of the adjacent shopping mall, trying to find a chemist - I have developed a delightful headcold, and will need some sinus clearing stuff before I fly back to Oz tomorrow. The Ambience Mall, Gurgaon is the biggest in Delhi (a city of 22 million, that is only a little less than the entire population of Australia). The directory of tenants does not seem to include chemists (pharmacies), but there is a "hypermart" in the lower ground floor, so I'm going to try my luck there. The mall timings (aka opening hours) are 10am to 11pm, so the fact that it is nearly 8pm won't be an issue.
We leave for the airport at 6:30am IST, and will land in Melbourne Tuesday morning 7:40am AEDT, inshallah (lit. God willing, aka: that's the plan). We have had a truly wonderful holiday, full of so many incredible sights, sounds, tastes, experiences, everything, and there is absolutely no question that we will be back. However, we are now ready to go home, are looking forward to our own beds (and particularly our own pillows - firm latex/foam rather than soggy down), and are looking forward to not having to peer at the currency to work out which note to pull out of the wallet.
We are staying in the very new, very swanky Leela Kempinski in Gurgaon, not too far from the airport. We got housekeeping to unlock the connecting doors between the boys' room and ours, which reduces the likelihood of the boys locking themselves out of their room every time they poke their head in at us. The bathrooms are as big as anywhere, occupying around half the floor space, but the view isn't quite as picturesque as some, it's just as memorable: a 20 lane tollgate (each way). This is the view at dusk, from our second floor room.
I'm about to go hunting the bowels of the adjacent shopping mall, trying to find a chemist - I have developed a delightful headcold, and will need some sinus clearing stuff before I fly back to Oz tomorrow. The Ambience Mall, Gurgaon is the biggest in Delhi (a city of 22 million, that is only a little less than the entire population of Australia). The directory of tenants does not seem to include chemists (pharmacies), but there is a "hypermart" in the lower ground floor, so I'm going to try my luck there. The mall timings (aka opening hours) are 10am to 11pm, so the fact that it is nearly 8pm won't be an issue.
We leave for the airport at 6:30am IST, and will land in Melbourne Tuesday morning 7:40am AEDT, inshallah (lit. God willing, aka: that's the plan). We have had a truly wonderful holiday, full of so many incredible sights, sounds, tastes, experiences, everything, and there is absolutely no question that we will be back. However, we are now ready to go home, are looking forward to our own beds (and particularly our own pillows - firm latex/foam rather than soggy down), and are looking forward to not having to peer at the currency to work out which note to pull out of the wallet.
Turns out that even in one of the hugest shopping malls I've ever set foot in, there is no pharmacy. The nearest is in another mall, around one km away. I gave up and bought a bunch of cheap fabric instead.
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