Connaught Place and the truth!
Cinema
04.12.2011 - 05.12.2011
Anyone that knows me may consider that I have a good sense of direction. I am able to say where 90 - 95% of the roads are in and around my town. I know short cuts, ways to avoid the traffic and what time of day to travel. But my close friends will know that I actually have zero sense of direction - yes zero - I am hopeless. My philosophy is to always turn left and I have on many occassions walked round in a big circle. Luckily for me Chloe has been blessed with my portion of internal sat nav so it is alot easier now she is older and I actually listen to her where we should be going as my brain still can't get around that the directions she is giving me are the correct ones. Which brings me to I have a confession to make, well two actually. First of all I have written a blog about Connaught Square which doesn't actually exist in Delhi as it is called Connaught Place. I wrote about the market etc maybe you have read it but my confession is that where we thought Connaught Place was - wasn't. I got the directions wrong. It's not good to be perfect anyway (not that I am by a long shot anyway but thats another story). When we actually went to Connaught Place - WOW! Not the street market we had been to (we had actually been in Parah Ganj which is meant to be the back packers delight but also a place to watch your bag) but full of proper shops, restaurants, a garden and even cinemas.
There are still people selling stuff on the pavements but these are actual pavements and real roads!
We took the opportunity to go to the cinema and watched Breaking Dawn (or Breaking Down as they advertised - mind you I felt like breaking down - we had walked miles to get here and given goodness knows how many turn downs for chai again.) Fortunately, we spoke to a lad who showed us where everything was and pointed us in the right direction. The cinema was very nice with big red velvet chairs on levels where the person in front doesn't spoil your view. You could also get a premier ticket and watch the film in the balconies but we were to late for this and they were full. We paid 200 rupees each (just over 2 quid) and you could buy burgers, chips, popcorn, nachos etc and take them in with you on a tray. We bought nachos and popcorn - this was abit of a mistake as I balanced the nachos with dips on the arm rest and someone behind pulled on the back of my chair (which always happens beit rail/air or cinema!!) and knocked the whole lot down the side of Chloe spilling the tomato salsa onto her seat. I'm not laughing honestly just suprised it didn't go on me! There was also a break half way through.
The delight was after though - the benefits of talking to the locals is you get to know what is going on and we were told that there was a Youth Festival in Connaught Place gardens at 1830hrs so along we went. It was brilliant! Lots of different acts with dancing and singing. We sat with numb bums on fake green carpet for about two and a half hours. There was a laser light show which was pretty cool but the best was the Hindi Rock group. Bless them - their guitar and drums were really good but the singing - all I can say is he sang just like me - just like me and I can clear a crowded pub on karaoke night!
It was a good finish to our trip around India anyway.
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