We arrived back in Delhi very early after a fairly comfortable 17 hour journey. Our coach dropped us off outside of town which was a bit unusual so we grabbed a tuk tuk to take us to our hotel and checked in. After dropping our bags off we headed straight to the Thai visa office to submit our forms. After a short wait the man told us we had to have details of a return flight or onward travel so we went to an internet cafe and booked the cheapest flight we could find. When we returned he told us that we had to have details of the flight from India to Thailand so we had to go back to the internet cafe to print these (pain in the arse). Actually I don't think you could of classed it as an internet cafe. It was more of an alley with a few computers in, it was dark and had rubish everywhere but it did the job. We went back for the third time and finally submitted our forms three hours after we started, hoping that our request would go through as the guy behind the counter was pretty incompitent, writing the wrong dates on the form etc.

We then had three days to wait to get our passports back. We were both tired so we went back to the hotel for a rest. After a few hours we woke up and decided to get room service instead of venturing out.

The next day we decided to explore Delhi as the first time we were here we were just here for the F1. We headed down to Connaught place; this is a huge circle of shops with a park in the centre. We found a lovely little cafe that made great panini's and then headed to the cinema as Kate was wanting to see Twilight (please don't judge). We found a cinema that was showing it in English and bought two of the cheapest tickets. We went in and we have to say it is probably the poshest place we have been in India. We went in to find our seats and blimey these were the most comfortable seats ever. We checked out the more expensive seating area which looked amazing, there were even sofas. Twighlight was great, we found it funny that they cut out the scene where Bella and Edward "get it on" - it made us chuckle.

The next day we decided to take a walk to Old Delhi, well what a treat for the eyes and nose! Now, India is a pretty smelly place, you just can't get used to the strong smell of urine but Old Dlehi seemed to be on another level. The poverty here was even worse, which we didn't think was possible. We had a look around the Red Fort then decided to make a sharp exit.

We needed to get on a train to Kolkata, we tried to get tickets a few weeks earlier in Shimla but no luck (the train booking system here is ridiculous!). Someone had mentioned about getting a tatkal ticket, these are emergency tickets and each train has a few seats reserved for this. The train we wanted had about 100 tatkal seats, they were going on sale at 10AM the next day. We spoke to our hotel and asked about our chances of getting the tickets. Knowing that the queue would be a complete free for all we didn't like our chances, however the guy at the hotel called someone who went and got in line for us. When we heard back he had only managed to get us on the waiting list, places 11 and 12. This didn't sound too promising but the guy at the hotel seemed certain that we would still get on the train but we wouldn't know for sure until two hours before the train was due to leave. The tatkal tickets are slightly more expensive than normal tickets and are not refundable so we were wondering how likely it would be getting our seats.

Thursday came and we nervously walked down to the visa office to collect our passports, thankfully they had been processed without any issues. Now we just had to see if we had made it on to the train. Low and behold, we went back at 3PM and our tickets were secured. We were quite happy to be leaving Delhi, however a bit nervous about how Kolkata would be as our book doesn't really paint a pretty picture.