Picto Diary - 05 January 2016 - Shower

Rest day. Catch up day. Apart from a walk in the AM, stayed in the hotel for the entire day. Today, participants in phase II of this year's India visit, members of the Margaret Taylor Dance Troupe, would arrive and we would all join for dinner in the hotel restaurant, 1911.

Above: Sign. Parliament Street. Delhi, India.

Around 8:00 AM I walked from the Imperial Hotel to Citibank, on Connaught Place, to use an ATM. I saw this sign and, presumably person, on Parliament Street.

Above: Steps out of elevator. 1st Floor. Imperial Hotel. Delhi, India. 05 January 2015.

No OSHA like rules in India yet. One sees "OSHA violations" everywhere. After tripping up a couple of times I've found myself frequently looking towards my feet when I begin to walk, pass through a doorway, or otherwise find myself in some kind of a transition location.

Does OSHA like thinking make our lives better.... or does it dumb us down to the point where we erode one's natural inclination to be careful?

Above: Shower. Imperial Hotel. Delhi, India. 05 January 2015.

In the hotels where we stay, the showers are THE best! Hot water, rushing out at what must be three times the flow of the pathetic water saving faucets we have in the United States.

No water flow regulations in addition to no OSHA like regulations. Just business license regulations!

My best shower ever was in India. Nanital. 1973. TIMDT, FeeBee, and Mwah (sic) drove to Nanital from Delhi for a long weekend. We got lost on the way, had a car breakdown, and were rescued by a resourceful Sikh landowner on whose land we found ourselves. He fixed our car and set us, with firm directions, on our way.

We arrived in Nanital about 10:00 PM. We were hot and tired. Immediately on reaching the room I headed for the shower. The flow of that hot shower came out like it was a broken water main. I stood there for 15 minutes... until the hot water started to cool. That Nanital shower remains my all time best shower ever.

Above: Print of Qutab Minar from hallway of Imperial Hotel, Delhi, India. 05 January 2015.

TIMDT produced this image to prove her claim that Qutab Minar must have been restored considerably since we lived in Delhi in 1973.

This lithograph is from the mid 19th century and everything but the tower itself looks destroyed. And, so it was, says TIMDT, more or less in 1973.

UNESCO has accomplished a lot of restoration in the last 42 years.

Above: Tea time. Imperial Hotel. Delhi, India. 05 January 2015.

I took tea and worked from this spot during late afternoon. At 4:30 PM I proceeded to the hotel spa for a manicure, pedicure and head massage scheduled for me by TIMDT.

Addendum:


Trident hotel not Tridon.

TIMDT,
Delhi, India


Thanks Steve. After reading today's blog I'll get the book. Thanks for the insight and sharing your first hand experiences. Maybe one day I will go, if I get up the nerve.

Bill,
Salt Lake City, UT


Well stated. Trust you (and we!) will survive the pollution!

Cheeta,
Vancouver, BC


Are you sure this isn’t Dheli?

Jack Aroon, Mahwah, NJ