That bay is tha' bomb!

According to our tour guide, apparently, that's pretty much how Bombay was dubbed by the Portuguese back in the day. Bom = short for beautiful, bay = bay. Now they've reverted to calling it Mombai since they kicked the brits out a while back. Anyway, we arrived here today after about a 3 hr train ride from Pune (as in poo-na). We were in the 1st class "AC SEATS CAR" which was cool and spacious- two adjectives I had forgotten existed to describe public places. Being Monday morning and judging by the business-ish attire of the other passengers, I gather that we were traveling on the equivalent to our Acela, for Rs 810, or about $20.25. For the three of us combined. Sweet. I'm glad we sprung for 1st class cause the econ tix were basically an empty car, separated "WOMAN ONLY CAR" and "MAN ONLY CAR" with standing room and people hanging out the open doors and even had some people sitting on the roof with their feet dangling. Not sure what those folks did when we entered the tunnel but they seem to get by doing things quite differently over here so I didn't give it too much thought.