Most time on holiday just ticks away as you amble around sightseeing and choosing where you are going to have your next thali.
Our trains have all been late, as they battle against the winter fog. Our train into Agra was 6 hours late, robbing us of a whole day sighting. So as we got our timings for my 4th overnight train this trip we were not surprised to see that there was a 4 hour delay since it left Kolkata. We headed to the Taj Majal in the morning, enjoying its breathtaking beauty and then off to the ancient palaces of Fatipur Sikri in the afternoon. We left at 6pm and checked again on the delay of the train, which alarmingly had sped up to such a rate that it was only 30 mins late - leaving us so short of time to return to Agra, pick up our luggage and head back to the station.
We hurried the taxi driver as much as we could, then when the cars are prohibited on the perimeter we got into an electric autorickshaw who ambled along with us shouting “faster faster” then we ran to the hotel and two guys helped us back with our bags, we ditched the dithery old driver and get into another electric auto shouting “get us to Agra Fort station now!” We speed off and along the way are stopped by the police for going so fast. They soon let us continue when they saw our panicked faces saying we needed to get to the station.
We arrive and the clock says 7.42pm and the train arrival board says it’s expected at 7.45pm so we get the porters to carry our bags over to platform 2 and there’s no sign of the train. Every second counted and we got here with 18 minutes to spare. If we’d of missed it it would have been so difficult to untangle as the trains are so full. But we made it - just!