The worst train journey of my life, and one which continues to come up periodically in my worst nightmares was from an Indian station called Madgaon to Trivandrum. Prior to the journey, I’d been staying for a few nights in
Curled up tightly in a foetal position, the pain was slightly more bearable although still not ideal for the remaining 17 hours of the train journey that would take me from Madgaon, Goa to Trivandrum (yes, there's a much longer
Nobody, no website, guidebook or colleague had told me the important bit of information about Goa – that it is in fact a well-known establishment, albeit in India, for European hippy's from a few decades earlier but who still haven't