Up at 5am for another early train to Jaipur…turns out we could have had another hour in bed! Typically the train was delayed, but it wasn't too much of a bother, as we got chatting to a couple from Brazil (Tiago and Maria) and whiled away the time talking about travels, life and everything else. There wasn't AC chair class for our 5 and half hour journey, so we had booked into 2 tier AC sleeper class and as it was the sleeper train from Varanasi to Jodhpur the ...

Our first train in India, what fun! We had booked ourselves a seat in the AC Chair Class carriage, we thought we'd break ourselves in gently. It was nice and even borderline cold in the AC! With the ticket came breakfast, which was nothing to really write home about, but it was food, so we can't complain. We even got to do the British thing and drink our chai in our metal mugs! Luckily the train announced the stations as we were arriving, so we didn't need to w...

We were both a bit nervous about heading to India. We'd heard so many stories about Delhi being awful and not to spend much time there, so we'd planned to only spend 2 nights and then head to Agra. The trip to the airport gave us a clear indication of how bad the fuel situation was, with miles upon miles of queues of taxis, busses and cars; all waiting to try and get some fuel….Hopefully our flight was still going to be leaving (some of the international flig...