Preview of Leighton's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Mysore, India Entry Title: "Mysore is Golden" Entry: "Day 20: 5am rise to catch train. All is quiet. Powercut, no bedgbugs, feel straight. Breath easy in the darkness. Downstairs to reception, front door locked & hotel staff asleep on marble floor in the lobby, all curled up in tight balls under white sheets. Stand in the shadows for a minute like a pointless thing. Porter suddenly grunts & unfolds, shuffles to desk & sifts through enormous stack of paper work in candlelight to find checkout form. Keys jingle, door shutter rattles open. Out into the cool air. Lone rickshaw summoned. Street sweepers, hand & broom, early morning turbaned toilet goers squatting in file, pigs wallow in ****. Into the station, families lay sleeping. Hop off the platform edge to cross tracks, climb aboard train. 6 tiny cups of chai & sunrise to Bob D 'Blood on the tracks'. Red blushing cornfields & rusted Rail India diesel livaries. Idli served, & bombay mix rasps the roof of dry salty mouth (scoured & ulcered by chilly, paan & citrus fruit). Arrive in Hubli. 6 hr connection wait. Attempts to buy fruit for good price foiled again by chancy fruit sellers (40 rs for 2 oranges?) I am yet to engage with a fruitman who doesn't charge 3 times the normal price. Peas palav compensates. Walk through town, fruit markets ...
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