{"id":453,"date":"2011-07-31T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T06:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:41:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:41:58","slug":"amy-i-love-autorickshaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/453\/amy-i-love-autorickshaws","title":{"rendered":"Amy: I Love Autorickshaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_151\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151\" src=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/autorickshaw.jpg\" alt=\"Autorickshaw\" width=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autorickshaw<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love autorickshaws because they&#8217;re fun, cute and we don&#8217;t have them in England.<\/p>\n<p>An autorickshaw is a doorless small yellow and green car with three wheels. It has a very small engine, maybe one out of a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in an autorickshaw is difficult for us all because they&#8217;re not really big enough for four people, probably only three. Fortunately for me I&#8217;m the smallest so I sit on Daddy&#8217;s lap. I&#8217;m not sure he likes it just as much as I do because after while his leg goes dead.<\/p>\n<p>The roads are crazy here in Delhi because there are no rules on the road, or it&#8217;s because the drivers don&#8217;t obey them. Once a motorbike was less than 5cm away from the autorickshaw and I couldn&#8217;t believe we didn&#8217;t hit it.<\/p>\n<p>Every single vehicle in Delhi has one thing in common: a VERY loud horn. Unlike in England, here in India they beep the horn to warn people that they&#8217;re going past them. In fact they beep it for absolutely everything.<\/p>\n<p>The people are crazy too because they just walk straight in front of a vehicle, even if it&#8217;s moving. We saw someone just literally standing in the middle of traffic filled junction when all around him was fast moving cars, autorickshaws, motorbikes, buses, lorries and cows.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, we walked to New Delhi Railway Station to get an autorickshaw to a restaurant called Karim&#8217;s but rather than say &#8220;Karim&#8217;s&#8221; to the driver Daddy said we wanted to go to the nearby Jama Masjid &#8211; a colossal Mosque that everyone knows about here. It turned out that actually the driver didn&#8217;t know the way, even though Daddy kept telling him the driver stopped and asked a Policemen to ask us where we wanted to go. Thankfully the Policeman knew that way and told the driver which gate to drop us by.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video of our ride &#8211; make sure you&#8217;ve got the sound turned up:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Night Journey in Delhi by Autorickshaw\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2k5VWfvKZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"box_count\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"45\" href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/453\/amy-i-love-autorickshaws\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love autorickshaws because they&#8217;re fun, cute and we don&#8217;t have them in England. An autorickshaw is a doorless small yellow and green car with three wheels. It has a very small engine, maybe one out of a motorcycle. 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