Having picked up Alex from the airport on Monday and introducing her to Mumbai via a hectic train ride, we decide to head to Goa on Wednesday morning. The train leaves at 5:45 and the station is a 10 minute walk away but we leave our hostel at 5 just to be on the safe side. It just beginning to get light and its interesting to see the streets at this time. It is less busy, cooler and the people who are awake are nicer and stop to say good morning. At one point a GIANT rat runs across our path and hops over some people who are asleep on the pavement, of which there are a lot. Most have a little mat and are covered completely in shawls like an Egyptian mummy, although some are just on piles of newspaper or plastic bags. Like a bed in a hostel dorm, it seems that what ever space they do have is theirs, and we are careful not to step on the mats. All the stalls selling bags, watches, t shirts, locks, perfume, phone accessories and pretty much anything else you can think of in the day are covered over with tarpaulin and their owners are sleeping on top of them. We stop to buy some water and bananas out side the station and then go and find our train.
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