September 9, 2009
Delhi Buying Trip
It was September time to plan another trip to Delhi to stock up on supplies and materials for the business. Over the past few years things have grown so well that going to the source and importing directly has begun to make more sense than getting things through another supplier and being limited to what they have decided to import. Over successive trips I have made deeper in roads to small cottage crafters and am able to get custom items made for me adding that extra exclusive edge to my business. Getting to India is always grueling for me. Thirteen hour flight from the west coast of the US, but all in all it is worth it in the end. Having visited before I book at the Delhi hotels with the most affordable rate and clean safe accommodations. Every year I meet Amit he is my trusted guide through the crowded and confusing streets of Delhi to the markets. He knows what I look for and is good at finding me new contacts and people meet each year thus expanding my circle of friends and business acquainted there. These trips have an edge to then being in India is stressful on one hand, the crowds, pollution, noise but the contrast of the hidden oasis in the court yard gardens of the homes of the wealthy. Where one day we spent having lunch with some new Indian friends. Once inside the walled compound where their large home sat along with servant and quest quarters all among garden and ponds that would rival any paradise. Hard to believe what was just over those tall walls and out side the gates. Lunch was excellent, the hosts very very gracious and seeing the contrast of this walled life inside the endless sprawling slums of Delhi was very enlightening. Now we have done the buying we came here to do. Seen a few sites, visited old and new friends and now time to head back.
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