day 70

We arrived at the train station a bit later than expected because the driver got us lost. When we got there we had about an hours wait til the train. There was a man doing a poo on the track...which thankfully I didnt see, but was much spoken about. After that revelation, we then had some food, we had bits of potato wrapped up in tin foil, a cheese slice sandwich, a boiled egg and a banana, which was for tea. It was ok, but wasnt very filling. A train then arrived, so we asked Rakesh, who worked at the house and came with us to the station, if this was our train. He didnt seem to know, but told us to go on it anyway. Thankfully, it was our train. I was sat near Natasha, Matea, Nat, Dan, Mandy and Holly. As soon as we got on the train everyone wanted to go to bed, but I didnt. But because of the mlayout of the train, when the beds are all folded down, there isnt enough room for you to sit up properly, so you have to lie down. So consequently, I went to bed too. We got off the train at about 5.45, and as soon as we got off the train we were hit by the heat and the smell. We had to walk along a main road with all our suitcases, which was a bit mental as there are no pavements and traffic does what it wants all the time. We got on our bus and drove for 45mins to our hotel. It was a nice hotel, I shared a room with Natasha. It also had a proper shower....the luxuries! As it was now about breakfast time, we went upstairs to where the food was served, and it was more like a gazebo with a table with a tray of cornflakes, some toast, and omelettes on, and you helped yourself. There were only about 12 seats there though which was a problem when there were 47 people there. The food was ok though. We were told that we wouldnt be able to get to the Taj mahal, as the train we needed to get on, you had to book 2 months in advance, and the only other train was later on in that day and took 6 hours, so it would have been to late for us to get there. We were all really disappointed, but there wasnt anything we could do, so just decided to have fun in Delhi instead. Me, Natasha, Tash, Matea and Freddie all got a private taxi person to drive us round the sites of Delhi stopping where we wanted. We went to the garden where Gandhi was assasinated, which just was a park really, then to the outside of the Red Fort (it was closed on a Monday, and also was an extortionate price for foreigners to get in), then we went to see the President's office, Parliament, the India Gate, and Connaught Place, which is the main shopping district. When we got to Connaught Place, we found a KFC so got some food there. It was the nicest KFC Ive ever seen! It had police at the doors searching everyone though, which isnt too uncommon. The only searched the Indians though, which was a bit strange. We then did some shopping at a market that was underground that was quite cool. It was massive, and Me, Natasha and Tash lost Freddie and Matea. We didnt think anything of it as we had text them to say we would meet them later on...then we hear our names on the tannoy, Matea was giving us an announcement to meet her! It was hillarious. She sounded so posh. Then we had to ask the Indians the embarassing question of where to find the meeting place, as we have been tannoyed. Outside some little beggar boy gave me a chinese burn because I didnt give him money. I was extremely tempted to give him one back, but didnt because 1) I am a better person than him, so neednt do it 2) I was probably about 14 years older than him 3) I may have got some nasty disease from touching him. We got back to the hotel for tea, and had a selection of curries and rice...that makes a change! It was actually quite nice though. We decided to get an earlyish night as we had to be out of the hotel for 8am the following morning, so stayed in the room and watched some rubbish American films til bedtime.