For those lovers of folk stories a four week trip to India is in a similar way a set of many little tales of such variety, colour and interest that are deeply ingrained and ritualised and told by the wonderful people eager to get on, mostly smiling and with a grace welcoming us strangers in their midst. We did Temples with hugely significant meaning and places like Pondicherry with its french influences, we ate well and simply and absorbed busy street life and wonderfully remote stop-overs alive with squawking birds and abundant vegetables. Rail journeys were hot and slow in dark ...