Life on an Indian Train
September 9th 2007 well what can we say - pure hell! aarrrgghh! we had our first long train journey today of 7 hours going from Alleppey to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu (we are on our way to Ooty so had to go via Coimbatore to catch the mountain express).
we decided to take the cheap option and go sleeper class unreserved with all the locals. hmm. for a start the whole train had a stench of urine wafting through from t
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