Just back from a grand weekend in Amritsar. We (Virginia, Nikheel, Surinder and I) set out just after 9am on Saturday, in a very heavy rain storm, hello monsoon! The driver thought he was Peter Brock, swerving past cows chewing their cud in the middle of the road, dogs wandering about with no respect for objects bigger than them and massive road slips… plus of course on coming traffic. After 6hrs 30mins on the road, we arrived in Amritsar a little worse for wear, checked into our hotel and within 15mins we were racing for the Pakistan / Indian boarder, Wagah Boarder. I seriously didn’t think the van we were in could reach 95kms per hour, it did. The driver was tooting like a man possessed. We didn’t really know what to expect at the boarded,
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