Guest blog: Roger Bara surviving the Games in Delhi
The oldest competitor in the games, Guernsey lawn bowler Don Batiste, interviewed by Roger Bara
He is currently in Delhi following the Jersey and Guernsey teams around the city for BBC Jersey online and on air.
You can hear regular updates from Roger throughout the day on BBC Jersey (88.8fm, 1026mw and online).
Here is his report.
If you don't mind sweating all day from head to foot, standing in queues waiting for your every piece of equipment to be checked several times at every opportunity, (fondled by another bloke with a geiger counter at the same time).
Swallowing enough calories in the form of little flying creatures each evening to not need an evening meal, with the threat of Delhi-belly and Dengue Fever ever present, then this is the place to be!
Welcome to my India, a place incidently I adore, as does Mrs B, but that of course is when we're on holiday.
Working is just a tad different.
Don't get me wrong, the security here is welcome - the problem when you're rushing around like a mad rushing-around-type-person is that it's just everywhere - and what you can get through one checkpoint, you can't in another.
The traffic in Delhi has meant getting around the Games has taken longer
One of our collegues was forced to eat a strong anti-diahorrea tablet otherwise they were to be confiscated - we haven't seen him for a couple of days.
Another bloke from the BBC was attacked by a monkey - needing hospital treatment.
And some poor reporters have found that the barcode on their accreditation doesn't work (not their fault) and they've had to stand around for ages, using the gentle art of persuasion...which often works, which is very good news if you're a terrorist.
I'm working with Roisin Gauson of BBC CI News fame - incidently, she attracts these huge moth-like creatures (but about four times the size of what we get back in the Channel Islands) - Rosh, as she is affectionately known, but not to the authorities here, is convinced these moth-type things wear hob-nail boots and are out to get her. She's probably right as usual.
Anyway, she is fast gaining a reputation for standing up to the authorities when they are being ridiculous - as she told me, it's nothing to do with her being a control freak.
But it's good to stand behind her, as many of us blokes do, when things get tough and a bit hairy. (Don't tell her Mum...)
I brought this kaftan shirt, long sleeves, long everything, with me to wear, in which I look even more ridiculous than usual, but it's incredibly thin, and relatively cool - so I didn't care about the early mickey taking
It was interesting though, on that very first day we were here, to be offered a large amount of rupees by a journo who was almost dying of sweat, for the very same shirt of mine.
It was a special and most attractive moment for me, and will live with me for some time...until the next blog perhaps.
You can follow Roger and Rosh in Delhi through their photos of the Channel Island teams on Flickr.
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Comment number 1.
At 13:48 9th Feb 2011, acedring wrote:after reading this post it almost sounds like it was some sort of zoo out there. quote 'a man is attacked by a monkey' this is the type of things you see in the cinema not here about by the BBC. I am annoyed by the conditions in Delhi however i am unbiased on the matter. The true fact is that Delhi in most cases is a third world country and if anything the atheletes should be greatfull that they got to shine hope and bring inspriation to people of it's native.
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