As usual, where I am being of no consequence, I am up at 5:00am and so it is just as well that I get into my day, riding the night train from Margoa, Goa to Cochin, Kerela, 2nd class, double, double decker. We had a turn of good fortune last evening, when the young men who were to be our compartment partners, convinced the conductor to relocate them and leave us alone to our own devices. This accommodation, then, after a fashion, became the highly desired coupe treatment, quarters for two, which does not come easy or often; and then. only on 1st class. We must have a look about us. Any way, yesterday was our first time hiring a taxi for the day, which was left to me while Penelope checked us out of the
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