Jaipur Again

The main train station in Delhi has a tourist ticket office. It might be my favourite place in Delhi. It is orderly, full of other travellers and an unmistakable reminder that you will soon be leaving for somewhere else.

To line up my plans with Kevin and Jen, my first order of business in Jaipur is to purchase a berth on the same train to Jaisalmer. Unfortunately, Jaipur does not offer the same ticket-purchasing comforts as Delhi. In general, the process is as follows:
* Get a ticket purchase form.
* Fill in the ticket purchase form.
* Stand in the line for the ticket purchase window.
* Present the completed form to the person behind the ticket purchase window and make payment.

If you were in charge of this process, where would you stack the fresh ticket purchase forms? If you answered: “With the person behind the ticket purchase window”, the management of the Jaipur Train Station likes the way that you think.

After too long, I score the second-to-last available ticket and we are off to Jaisalmer.