The rest of our train to Mumbai was fairly uneventful. Early start as our neighbours had an early start ~ consideration for others isn't a high priority here. Arrived in Mumbai, tired but grateful to be out of the north. Or so we thought before we experienced the perils of the Indian local train. We thought we'd seen it all in cattle class but it was nothing on this local train. We waited until after rush hour but you wouldn't have guessed from the amount of pe...

Jaipur to Agra: The story of the train and the Taj.... The day started early, 4 .30am early to catch the train to Agra. We did think the ticket was cheap and then later realised why as we walked past all of the coaches and ended boarding a carriage so rammed it would be deemed unsafe anywhere else. Cattle class doesn't even explain it. 5hours covered in sweat, hungry, being pestered for money. Arriving was the best part of the day so far. Took a rickshaw, arri...

Our trip to Jaipur didn't get off to the greatest start. Our train was at 6.05 - fine. We got up at 5.00 - fine. We got to the station at 5.45 - according to Sean's watch. According to the train station clock it was 6.25. Massive error. So we were then led away by one of the ever so helpful Indian men to the 'emergency ticket office' - advice: it doesn't exist. So we then had to wait around until 8am until the real ticket office opened. So 1 and a half hour sat...

Some things we hate about Delhi: 1.Everyone is a con man. If someone says they're your friend they are probably about to take you to the tourist information 2. There is no tourist information. None. The only helpful person we have found is a lovely Dutchman who showed us where the tourist ticket desk was at the train station. 3. There is definitely a tourist ticket desk in the station, is hasn't` burned down, or moved, or never existed. It exists. And it's i...