The hustle and bustle of Old Delhi plus another great win

Today had two main objectives, find a certain restuarent for lunch and see hopefully another England win, fortunately both were easier to do than expected. After a lazy start to the day we headed north from our guest house to Old Delhi, a seathing mass of busy narrow lanes and yet again non stop horn honking.

 First stop was the Red Fort, very similar to the one in Agra as they were built by the same people it was similarly impressive but felt calmer which made a welcome change. After yet more photo opportunities it was back out onto the busy streets in search of what has been called the best curry house in the Asia and the world (Times magazine, Sunday Times).


Walking past some rather interesting sights, the meat market being the most unpleasent as people were cutting up sheeps heads by the side of the road, the general mele of business was relentless, we soon realised as seems to be often on this trip that once outside any tourist attraction we become the only western people around.

After a few stops to check the map and rickshaw drivers pointing the way, down a backstreet we found it, 'Karims' is as much an insitution as a restuarant. We got shown to a table in one of the several eating halls and studied the simple menu wondering quite what all the fuss could be about. Going for what we thought was relatively safe dishes in that we could recognise them slighly, the food was lovely, quite a different taste to what we have had so far, definately worth the time it took to find.

Once we'd made it back home and taken a brief siesta it was time agian to head up to the hockey, hoping today our driver would know how to get there, and he did, which with none of the expceted rush hour traiffc meant we just caught the end of the Australia vs South Africa  game. On this form there can be no doubt Australia are the team to beat, having started the tournament slowly, their now peaking at just the right time, 12-0 is a druppng in anyones books.

Next up the one we were there for, England vs Pakistan, starting off at a great pace, England looked the much more structured, using the width and controlling the game for much of it, some lovely breaks and crosses into the back post, combined with managing to keep Sohail out at the shorts meant a well deserved 5-2 win, the only issue being a big injury to Mantell who now misses the rest of the tournament.

Now the local team were up in what was really a must win game against Spain, the stadium was pretty much full and a very passionate crowd got behind their boys. As a spectator you have a develop an understanding that every cheer does not necessarily mean goal mouth action for the locals, every touch by one of their players, no matter what part of the pitch means a great roar from the crowd, this could be interesting when England play them on Saturday and my Dad and I may stand out from the rest of the crowd a little....should be fun:)