January 20
Overnight in guesthouse: woken at 4am by the heater in front of the building, noise propeller engine for 2 hours.
Nothing special today; flor care of her appointments and I expect in a chat with my buddy Kashmiri who bought a nice little cover - need here in this weather, and necessary for the overnight trip we do tonight to Pushkar. It is a beautiful city and very popular with Hindus as the foot of a beautiful lake. Unfortunately, the lake is now dry, but the city is worth a visit even under these conditions. From there we will see! These are not options that are missing: Bundi, Udaipur, Jaipur, Agra (yes, the Taj Mahal), ...
This noon I ate a "chariot" dce-like pancakes with delicious spicy. Simply furnished in a piece of newsprint. The cook did not speak a word of English, so I could find the spices included, but he had before him several small battered metal pots, and the dough itself should be a special preparation. Having no memory due to Alzheimer's early, I forgot the name of this small but very simple preparation ... stodgy (total 3 "bread" : Less than 0.5 euros).
I can not wait to go tonight if I could do in Delhi whatever I wanted. This is India. Everything takes time. Delhi is a city or rather a megalopolis which no longer knows where it begins and where it ends.
In architectural terms, it was remodeled in the early twentieth century, the British request, an urban planner, Lutyens. Delhi has now so vast and long boulevards and one of them - where I could go - is said to be equivalent (in its symbolic meaning) of our Champs-Elysees.
Delhi advantage, despite its surface, and posser many green spaces and even a huge nature reserve. And the town is so great that the airport is included!
From my discussions with my friendly salesman of textiles and other Kashmir, it is clear that Indians are generally deep and "friendly". Even if you do not buy them! They love the contact and try and offer an easy chai. Between travelers and "traveler" is very easy here. A strong nation represented in India are the Israelis. Custom dictates that once completed its two years of military service, Israeli make a journey of initiation (1 year, in principle). India is their country of choice: completely disorienting, and not far away, for their purchasing power, very cheap even for a very long time. Dating
which helps to make a facebook flesh and bones, with "friends" (real!) To the 4 corners of the planet.
Example: the Italian of Naples, with whom I spoke yesterday in the store I spoke at length about his city, and it the first time I could talk with a Neapolitan. Now it is a city where I intend to go as soon as I can. Similarly, my meeting with the couple of French designers living in the Ardèche is also exciting for me on an anthropological and architectural they live, and many others (there are 12 people in total), in a huge hangar reallocated for this purpose (apartments, artist studios, school songs, ...) and have developed a community where everyone lives his life, but even where there is a genuine solidarity. Nothing to do with our Parisian apartment buildings. And less than 300 euros per month, they have at their disposal 800 m2. It leaves us dreamers, not .... ? But this type of life form I'm very interested.
But that is India! And I've done other games which I'll maybe one day .... if they lead to what I hope in future more or less close.
Serju, who settled in Bormes, is disgusted by the French bureaucratic administration. In India the contrary, we feel an ease and spontaneity of work and creativity that make you want - that's what I Serju confirmed. In Over the years, his work in France is becoming increasingly heavy because of the checks and administrative requirements.
Anyway ...
(flor and her friend / collaborator, Amin, a few hours before departure. We drank chai in a chaotic street
...!) Anyway ... Started by bus at night (sleeping) for Pushkar ...
(in our helicopter gunships, and flor me behind, loaded our bags into chaos unnamed road, en route to "Old Delhi" where we wait, we do not know too, where the bus that would take us far away - 300 miles south).
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