Jodhpur From Agra, where I'd developed a cold, I took what has to be the worst train trip ever to Jodphur. Quite apart from the fact that it was 2 hours late in Agra and delivered me 8.5hrs late to Jodpur, the sleeper carriage I was in was so rammed full I had to sleep on my big backpack on my bunk, the only ventilation were barred windows which did nothing to cut through the stifling heat of the carriage while we sat in the station for hours being slowly cooked by the sun. Babies were screaming, it was filthy dirty, insects and fleas jumped all around me and, more than occasionally, in my clothes and after we finally got moving providing some blessed air movement, the train then stopped after about half an hour for
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