2006 World Trip - Delhi

Still feeling horrible we made it by train back to Delhi and our air-conditioned room in the +40’s heat.  Where we kept our fridge stocked with lovely cold mineral water, which was all we could manage.  Every three days since we were first sick we ate a couple of pieces of toast, which we wolfed down, and then raced to the toilets.  Mark lost 2 stone and began to look very ill - not that he ever looks like a picture of health. 

The problem being that anything that smelt of food made us dash to the toilet - and did so for weeks afterwards.  Being in India the air was filled with spices and exotic smells, so we struggled to get better and became very well aquainted with the bathroom walls.

Two days after arriving in Delhi we tried going to Subway (the first western food we’d seen since we landed in India), and each had a tiny portion.  Before dashing back to the hotel to…well I’m sure you get the idea by now.  This pattern continued all through this time in Delhi; we then got the overnight train back to Calcutta (we’d planned our train and plane trips so that we could see all the Australia and England football matches in the World Cup).