Day 145 (Wed 29 Nov) - Varanasi

The hotel is pretty noisy so had a restless nights sleep, which was topped off by the cleaner going into the room next door at 6am and switching on the TV on full volume. So much for our lie in!

Got up and headed off to El Parador for a tasty breakfast on their roof terrace. Fueled by breakfast fought our way to the train station where we dumped our bags and arranged tickets to take us to Ranthambore on Friday.

Spent most of the day at the internet - both of us have problems with our boilers so we were determined to sort them out before we left Varanasi. After successfully shelving out two grand a piece on new boilers we went to have a snack before we caught the train to Delhi.

The busy train left at about 7pm, we didn't have dinner as we were put off by seeing this rather fat family in front of us stuff themselves. In India we have seen that so many middle class families are fat, suppose it shows off their wealth.

Went to bed, slept quite well, except there was an extremely fat man snoring very loudly and then when he stopped you were worried that he'd kegged it! (Aside: This was not Sarb as he is now properly described as being portly).