It is time for visits once again and this time we have received my
mom. As I already mentioned before with the visit of my dad, our parents are to
a great degree responsible of who we are, and my mom is as responsible as my
dad for the adventurer that I have inside and for having given me the wings
that lead me to believe that there are no limits at the time of letting
yourself take the leap and fly. Needless to say, she didn't doubt for a second
when I asked her to come and visit us in India. So for two weeks we left our
bicycles with our lovely Indian family to temporarily travel again using public
transport. For me, it meant visiting for the second time some of the places
that I had already been to back in 2001, with the caveat that this time having
much more experience and a much richer perspective, especially as a
photographer, I have been able to experience this trip in a different way. On the
other hand, it meant having fun walking my mom through the huge cultural shock
that involves every first visit to India, and making her travel on my low
budget, teaching her how to eat with her hands Indian-style in the popular
eateries and have her travel in the famous 2nd Class Sleeper of
Indian trains. Some might tell me: “How can you do all that to your own
mother???” to which I proudly reply: “well, it just that my mom is like a 4x4,
she can do anything”.
This is going to be more of a visual walk with updated personnal
comments and appreciations, since there is not much more that haven't written
before about the following places of India. (sorry my fellow English readers,
as all of what I have written before is only in Spanish)
The old
side of Delhi
