Tut-tuts and temples

Our morning started off with a nice breakfast with our host Pervez and a couple of fellow guests at our logdings for the week, Delhi Bed and Breakfast, with most of the talk about the previous days games and Holi. The festival of Holi seems to mainly involve getting coloured, so we took to the terrace to watch some of this going on, deciding to head out once it was safe around mid-day.

With no hockey matches on our agenda today we thought we'd get some sightseeing done and headed out to Humayun's tomb, the roads were nicely quiet and the parks packed with locals making the most of a day off. Inside it was a relief from the busy outside, Delhi seems a city of contrast from almost chaos on the roads and littered streets, to places of tranquillity and beauty.

The tomb and next on our excursion, Lodhi Gardens were in the later bracket, lovely well kept gardens, people playing cricket and enjoying the peacefulness. All this trekking around Delhi was done on what is the easiest way to get round, the auto-wallah or tut-tut, at around £1-£1.50 to get into town from where we are it's a rollarcoaster ride bargin. With some sightseeing done it was back to near where we are staying for a curry and then home to see Holland easily beat Argentina, although I thought they were a little dependant on two of their older stars, Vogel's in goal looking rock solid and Taekema's short corners proving deadly.

It's back for some more hockey tomorrow, a small matter of Endland vs South Africa, a game we'll be expecting to win but before that some more tombs and tut-tut's....of which one of our driver's today seemed to of had his Holi fun today.