Journey with Turkish Air was good, an interesting Afghan beside me. He's the national seed co-ordinator for the UN, no less, and insists I can visit and enjoy Afghanistan as a tourist, if I go to the right places, hmmm..... maybe next time. Delhi Nothing quite prepares you for Delhi, not even a previous visit. Chaos was invented here, I think, and it's practised very successfully every day - traffic, noise, enormous numbers of humanity zig-zagging in random directions, like a beehive at work. Raj, our Delhi fixer is very good and we hired him to take us around the sights, much less of a hassle - the place is full of smiley tricksters who inists where you want to go is closed,but he knows just the place that's open. Delhi's not for the fainthearted, but
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