Monday, July 27, 2009

Train travel

I love travelling and anything that makes my travel experience even longer is worth anything else, thats the only reason why i love travelling in trains and travelling in Indian trains is more fun than adventure itself. Train travel is not meant for week at heart people who cant stand the untidiness and the uncleaniness of the place where they sleep, for me it was cleaner than where i usually sleep, anyhoo if given a choice between travelling in train for 2-3 days or travelling by plane for 2:45-3 hrs i would always prefer the train travel. Even though the plane travel is bit more clean, calm and confortable ride but choas and meeting new people is what i prefer more than anything....plus travelling in trains saves money... :) not that i cant afford plane travel but somehow saving money seemed a better bet. Wherever you live and whatever you do if u can travel in train without losing your calm i think so u can get through anything in life. From the first moment onwards you are in a never ending stife to get the best seat for yourself, even though the seat numbers are mentioned in the tickets but still you are never satisfied by what u have and u are always in an endavour to get the other person's seat. Like a children would always like a window seat, an elder lady who is struck with an upper berth seat would always prefer to sleep in the lower berth and adroopy eyes guy will always like a upper berth where he could hide from the rest of the world and can sleep all the way to the last station but still each one of them will have a ticket which doesnt go with there taste and end up cursing the ticket counter guy who sloblish always say " bus yahi seat bachha hai". But thanks to the ever so adjusting nature of us indians in indian trains(mind it this nature is only visible in a public transport in india and nowhere else) that we put our best faces and best natures in front of others and plead with the respective good ticket holders to adjust just for a single night for bla bla reasons for their own. Some are good at it, some are not, but somehow at the end of the day people usually end up giving up seats adjusting for others etc etc.
But if u think the story ends here well thats not true...this is just the starting of the travel.....