The train we went to Agra in was quite fast, air conditioned, not very high tech, with a bathroom that had a squatter for a toilet. It is tricky to use a squatter on a rickety train that bounces and lurches. But somehow we did it. We made it to Agra in just two hours.

This lawyer and his family sat facing us. We had a table between us. We must have been right in the middle of our car because no one else had a table. We were also served a dinner on this train. Our train coming home served some snacks that we had to pay for and it stopped at every train stop. It took us almost six hours to get home.