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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Trains [was Re: Independence Day]
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:20:45 -0400
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On 7/19/24 3:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've traveled on trains in many different countries, and I can tell you
>> that a train in India is very different from a train in Japan.  But each
>> is interesting in its own way.  Japanese rail travel is usually fast,
>> frequent, clean, comfortable, and often very expensive.  In India,
>> on the other hand, it is usually slow, infrequent, dirty, uncomfortable,
>> and often very cheap.
> 
> But in both cases the food is very good, though in the latter you may
> have to wait for a stop for the chapatti vendors by the tracks.
> --scott

And eat it served on a leaf.  You know, I ate all sorts of food for a 
month in India and never got sick.  From the food on the Lufthansa 
flight that was loaded in Germany--that I got sick on!

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