We 're still at Indira Ghandi Airport, Delhi when a group of young men purve at S. I quip at her to cover up & notice that she is totally covered. It's 2.30 am as we leave the airport for a hotel, the streets are still busy with people wandering around aimlessly, obviously no where to go or they would be there. Shapes lying on the ground. An open truck load of children drives past???

We feel intimidated by the men at reception who demand our passports & ignore my request for thier return, one brushes up against S. It's 4am when we finally enter our room. We bucket wash our bodies in cold water. A msg arrives on my phone from the Australian Embassy wishing us well and please call us if you have any trouble, it's comforting. I had registered our trip with DFAT. and listed 'him' as my contact person. "don't worry', I said, 'I don't plan on doing anything adventurous'. To which he replied, 'Well actually, you are".