Another Adventure

There are right now about 12 trainers here in Delhi mostly 2/3 CO and the others are UA, all of us will soon be UA of course. Tuesday night 4 of us from the day shift were going out to dinner together, away from the hotel. It was some place that the people from the other Delhi office, where I will be next week, introduced Vidia to last time she was here. She knew the name and approximately where it was but not the exact address, so she had the concierge give directions to the taxi driver. The problem is he didn't bother to admit he didn't know where the restaurant was, the directions he gave sent our taxi to the complete wrong part of the city to Vatika Business Park instead of Vatika Grand Restaurant. Our driver didn't speak English and of course none of us speak Hindi so it was crazy trying to get him to understand it was the wrong place and just to take us back to the hotel. He was so persistent. He called several people, drove to several locations and even got out to ask street vendors for help, he just would not give up. Finally he called someone who knew and was able to get him to the right spot. What should have been a 15 minute taxi ride took us about an hour and a half. When we finally got there the food was really good and the restaurant was really unique inside, set up to look like you were in a cave. I'm still not sure it was worth a 90 minute cab ride, especially when I was hungry when we left the hotel, but it was good and even with the cab ride about half the price of the dinner buffet here in the hotel. I tried more new foods including Chicken Masala and Aloo Paratha. Everything was good. I still am not really sure the poor cabbie knew where we were because he took a crazy path, but it only took less than 20 minutes to get back to the hotel.