22/1/10 Mumbai to Goa We woke up hearing the alarm at 4.30 after a whole two hours sleep feeling pretty rubbish. Liz had a shower but as it was cold Phil didn't again...stinky. We got a taxi to the station this time as we had a load of luggage and as we pulled into the station it was busy with queues of taxis all hooting but none of them moving. We walked through the exit doors avoiding the unmanned security screening and onto the platform where our train was. W...

21/1/10 Aurangabad back to Mumbai We got up early and Liz had a cold shower as there was no hot water but Phil gave it a miss. While Liz was in the bathroom Phil sneaked into another empty room to use the loo and got a real telling off by the member of staff. He said "you should ask" which was a fare comment but Phil just told him he couldn't wait as we were both really unwell...hes such a little liar but needs must !! We walked to the train station an...

19/1/10 Mumbai to Aurangabad We had a really early morning call at 4.30pm when we got up and showered after a bit of sleep. As we had already stored our luggage we could go to the station straight away which was only a ten minute stroll away. It was still dark but there were a few people mingling about and making their way to work despite the early hour. When we arrived at the station we went through the entrance past the security screening, which was unmanned a...

16/1/10 Delhi to Mumbai We woke up and got some breakfast then put our bags in storage for the morning as we were going to the airport at 2 to fly to Mumbai. We were going to use the few spare hours waiting trying top catch up our blog but when we got to the internet cafe the electricity had been cut and they had no idea when it would be back. We have had loads of power cuts since we have been in India but most places had a back up generator. We waited in the sh...

14/1/10 Varanasi to Delhi We got up and fo once the shower water was hot which was great as the room itself was freezing so we needed a defrost in the shower. We checked out and left our bags in storage for the day as we were off back to Delhi on the night train leaving at 7.30pm. We then spent a few hours on the hotel internet doing the blog and trying to book trains. Although the system is online you have to book up about three options as you don't have your r...