Winter cold - It has begun

it’s December 3rd and a nice Saturday morning... but oooh so cold out there...

I personally prefer the not so blistering cold from the ever so scorching heat of Delhi... If you haven’t experienced, either, you are missing something.

When you get up in the morning, there is nothing you can do to get me out of the bed, because it’s warm inside and then the hot cup of tea is simply the best thing in the world... Your own private igloo in the comforts of your home.


And then the fact that I wear glasses. Now I don’t know if I should be pleased or pissed off about this, But it sure creates some interesting situations... The Delhi winter brings along with it a huge amount of fog and at times the visibility is reduced to even 1 or 2 meters. Now if you have to go anywhere like your office, even a 30 minute distance might take hours and that even if there is no traffic.

I remember a couple of years ago, we (my family) decided to celebrate new years at connaught place... This is a prominent landmark in Delhi with lots of shopping, eateries, cinema, parks and fun. Sort of old age version of a modern day mall. Except that it is spread over a huge area (you can spend days in there) and sometimes you get great deals.


There was a popular band playing live there in connaught place and we had decided to have some Ice Cream in the gardens (Ice cream in winters?)... So we thought that 8 pm should be a good starting time... It’s about an hours drive and if we get into bad traffic we will get there latest by ... what ... 10? We will be right on time for some dinner and enjoy the band?

We reached the out skirts of connaught place after midnight and couldn’t go any further cause it was jam packed upto there and you couldn’t go up any further... so we had our party right there on the road.

Then we just turn back and reached home around 3 in the morning...

On the road we tried following the tail lights of the vehicles ahead and had a couple of close calls as well.

Now this winter, the Met office has warned of ground frost in many parts of Punjab and Mariana during the next two nights. In Delhi also, fog and mist has been predicted in the days ahead even as the entire region was in the grip of a severe cold wave. The temperature is 4 degrees below normal...

But the say its gonna warm up after 2-3 days...

Happy winters