Love marriage or arranged marriage??

So its just hit me - we are actually in India and just walking down the street is a life experience in this wonderfully crazy country!! I write this while we are on the 5hr drive from Delhi to Jaipur so its very easy to take some time to record some of the random things that we have experienced since we landed in India. This is our only method of recording our memories and in a few weeks time I am afraid of forgetting the small things.

When we told our waiter at breakfast (or should I say Ronan said it with me kicking him under the table thinking I cant face any more chocolate cake) that we were on honeymoon, he asked was it a Love marriage or Arranged marriage - maybe i should be angry with how long it took Ronan to reply!!! Ronan has been slagging me that the Indians have been struggling with my Leitrim accent as it took a few attempts at the word butter before it arrived for my toast - apparently it's not pronounced 'busher'



The sound of horns beeping is now the backdrop to everything. All the trucks have signs saying 'blow horn' while the traffic light poles have signs saying don't honk horn - guess it's just easier to make noise than have someone crash into you!

I am exhausted from just assuring workers in the hotel that everything is good and we are fine, we are asked at least 7 times during each meal and had 2 callers to our room in the evening literally just to ask are we ok. As we're still getting the 5* treatment thank God all was perfect as I can't imagine how exhausting lying that number of times would be.

We have encountered some 'rascism' where people didn't want to sit beside us in the bus even where there were no other seats available. The ones that did sit beside us got their friends to take photos which coincidentally myself and Ronan are also in!!

You can make a child's day by waving to them!

Every building is famous and every house for sale is affordable - the building boom is massive we feel we should warn them how that one pans out!

That we should have taken the train in this journey. As someone conditioned to wear a seatbelt to drive from the front door to the gate I am not coping well with the lax-a-daisy approach to safety and driving. It's not a coincidence that they have signs saying 'Accident prone area' and 90% of cars have dents and scrapes. Just look at this crashed lorry (sorry pictures wont load today)

Although we can't complain as our driver is acting as if he is transporting very precious cargo - either that or it's frowned upon to kill a tourist in a traffic accident??

N