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Day 11- Travelling in discomfort and a Gandhi Ashram

In the morning it was an early start from Udaipur to Ahmedabad. It was a 5ish hour ride. The bus itself was relatively comfortable however the amount of dust was unbearable. 

Long journeys on buses and trains without WiFi give you a lot of time to think. I haven’t decided whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. When you are on the go constantly you don’t have time to think. For the last 10 days thinking has been minimal and my free time has consisted of trying to remember what we had seen that day and the facts around what I had learnt. When you are on a bus for 5 hours there is only so much you can do to distract yourself. Eventually after you have spoken to the person next to you and watched some shows or listened to a podcast you still have time to kill. 

I feel like when you are away and have time to think you think of home. In the middle of the Indian countryside I am thinking about my small bubble at home. Thinking about my family and friends. I put some music on to distract me and each song already holds a memory. I thought that today I
would share some of these memories that are making me miss home. 

  • Fifteen- Taylor Swift- my mother’s all time favourite Taylor swift song and I have such great memories of being at these concerts whilst she sings along.
  • Riptide- Vance Joy- summertime ball with Sophie, Sophie and Laura. After a cheeky Nando’s we went to watch Taylor swift. Vance Joy was a support act and this song came on when we had already drunk a few alcohol beverages and we ended up singing and dancing along with lots of laughs.
  • Shallow- Lady Gaga- Going to the cinema with Karen and cousin Rich. Both cousin rich and I refusing a tissue but ended up needing one when the lights came back on.
  • Lola Montez- this one is fairly new but reminds me of James who has the guts to make a video of them semi dancing and mouthing the words through east croydon station.
  • Flowers- sweet female attitude- girls night with the most incredible and funny women. And also some amazing pizza.
  • Mr Brightside-  the killers- megan because we killed this at Maggie’s birthday a few years back. 

Ghandis Ashram- Ghandi lived here for 12 years. This is where he started his pilgrimage to Dandi which as Rahul would say ‘is super far’. Whilst there I bought a copy of Gandhi’s autobiography for a bargain price of £0.80. I can’t wait to give it a read!



We took the sleeper train from Ahmedabad to Mumbai. This was an 8 hour journey that left Ahmedabad at about 9:10 and got into Mumbai at 6:10ish am. This was not the most comfortable experience where headroom in the bunk was limited. The train we were on had 3 bunks on two sides and 
two on one side. This was fine and our group was occupying 
5 of these beds. One of our new bunk friends was absolutely fine. The other two were a couple in their 50s who decided they needed a huge box for their journey. They got upset when they couldn’t find space for their box and were generally quite whiny and miserable. On a sleeper train your bunk mates are quite important. 

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