After another long train journey, the staple of our time in India, we arrived in Thivim in North Goa from Mumbai (which I’ll post about later as we actually visited twice). We’ve found the trains to be a really good experience, perfectly comfortable and on the whole reliable bar the one train from Agra to Jaipur. We’ve mainly travelled on a mix of 2 A/C and 3 A/C, but there isn’t that much difference between them. 3 A/C basically means there are 3 bunks instead of 2 and you don’t have a curtain dividing your compartment from the rest of the carriage. The other passengers have always been friendly and we spent one journey teaching an elderly lady how to play the card game ‘shit head’ although we didn’t teach her the name in exchange for
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