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Indian train classes, and which one you actually want
The class codes look like a hierarchy of comfort. They are really a set of trade-offs between price, privacy, air…
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Practical travel advice: packing, transport, timing and the small decisions that make a trip easier.
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First trip to India: the things that actually catch people out
Not the dramatic warnings. The ordinary logistical assumptions that turn out to be wrong, and cost a day each.
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Delhi to Jaipur: four ways, and which one suits which trip
About 270 kilometres, and four genuinely different answers depending on whether you are optimising for time, cost, comfort or flexibility.
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Getting around Jaipur without losing half the day to it
Jaipur is two places joined by one slow road. Choosing transport for each half separately is what stops the commute…
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How to pack a carry-on for a week without thinking about it again
A carry-on packed to a system means you stop thinking about it. Here is the four-days-plus-one-wash approach that fits a…
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The case for the overnight train
The honest case for the overnight train is practical, not romantic: it turns travel time into sleeping time. Here is…