Apparently I took this photo on Nov 16, 2024, which is the time of the year when I start to get *very* ready for my fall semester to finish…leading me to do things like arranging my travel cards in grids for no good reason. Here, in contrast, are ones that make their location very clear.
I know 3 of those and have two
CTS throwing you off? I'm including it in this photo because I believe the back makes abundantly clear where it's from. Guessing you don't have that and the Delhi one? Gotta say, it's gorgeous! Puts the others to shame.
Never been to Delhi! All my cards I got in person cuz it’s hard to do otherwise
More and more my opinion is that Delhi is like Rome but with better food. (-:
So, old, dirty, people driving on sidewalks, and someone will be trying to rob you, but amazing cultural stuff?
Precisely! Both great cities!
Also cars being driven like maniacs and lots of honking for no good reason! (And history hits you at every street corner)
Not sure about the better food, but certainly checks out — I went to Rome at the end of my first Europe trip, and was stunned by how much it felt like home!
I mean, I'll take a great cacio e pepe or carciofi alla Romana or perfectly prepared cicoria contorno any time, but compare that to the union of everything from Central Asia to South India?!?
And also homegrown monstrosities like Gobi Manchurian, I agree! (It’s hard to evaluate food when one has only been to one of those places as a relatively-penniless grad student, so you can see where I was coming from though)
I still remember my first gobi manchurian, at a hotel in Jayanagar, BLR. One of my dad's friends very excitedly came over and said "you've gotta try this thing", in the tone reserved for the fried-est of foods, and he was right. Wait, you're telling me it's not actually from Manchuria?!? /s
Nor from the Gobi desert, I’m afraid!! (I really do not like it though 😂)
